Marwa Arsanios
Marwa ARSANIOS (1978, USA) obtained her MFA from the University of the Arts in London and has worked as a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. She co-founded the 98Weeks Research Project in 2007. Arsanios has received a number of grants and in 2012 she was nominated for a Future Generation Art Prize and the Sovereign Art Prize. In 2019, her short Amateurs, Stars and Extras or the Labor of Love premiered at FIDMarseille. Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3 Micro Resistances (2020) is the third part of a trilogy.
Filmography
(all short, selection) Ebba (2007, co-dir), I’ve Heard Stories: Part 1 (2008), I’ve Heard 3 Stories (2009), Have You Ever Killed a Bear? − or Becoming Jamila (2014, doc), Falling Is Not Collapsing, Falling Is Extending (2016), Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 1 (2018), Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 2 (2018), Amateurs, Stars and Extras or The Labor of Love (2019), Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3 Micro Resistances (2020, doc)
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Marwa Arsanios op IFFR
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Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 3 Micro Resistances
Marwa Arsanios | 31' | Germany | World premiere (festival)
A small, seemingly insignificant seed grows into an exploration of autonomy, collectivity, indigenous struggle and eco-feminism in Colombia. -
I’ve Heard Stories: Part 1
Marwa Arsanios | 4' | Lebanon | None
A gripping film that evokes the rumours that once circulated of a murderous homosexual ménage a trois in Beirut’s mythical Carlton hotel.