Middle Eastern Video Project - middleastalentime 15 April 2006 - 2006 Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW

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100 Portraits
Creators
Khan, Hassan
Date
2001
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3138
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1156

100 Portraits of individuals from the city of Cairo, projected on to an aerial shot of the city, with each person stating where they make there home in a heterogeneous urban space.

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Chic Point
Creators
Waked, Sharif
Date
2003
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3136
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1154

Chic Point ponders, imagines, and interrogates “fashion for Israeli checkpoints.” Set to the backdrop of a heavy rhythmic beat, men on catwalks model one design after another in an exploration of form and content …

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Dog
Creators
Sabsabi, Khaled
Date
2004
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3135
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1153
 
http://www.peacefender.com/Video.html
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Face A / Face B
Creators
Mroue, Rabih
Date
2003
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3133
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1151

In 1978, Rabih Mroue and his brother Manuel who had just arrived from Cuba, wrote lyrics to a song, and synchronized them to a Russian tune …

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Friendly Fire
Creators
Ghani, Mariam
Date
2002
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3145
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1163

Friendly fire dramatizes the split Ghani felt as an Afghan American when the US bombed Afghanistan in October 2001 …

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Hair Salon
Creators
Farhid, Nooshin
Date
2004
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3146
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1164

Hair Salon is a highly humorous piece that explores the notion of beauty and bodily fascination …

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Happy Meal
Creators
Entekhabi, Shahram
Date
2004
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3144
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1162

In a world of mounting tensions between the Middle East and the much of the West, Happy Meal, presents a collision of cultures with a sympathetic eye; as a young girl wearing a chador; a dark traditional garment worn by Muslim women unabashedly eating and enjoying a “Happy Meal” from McDonalds …

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Hostage, The Bachar Tapes (English Version)
Creators
Ra'ad, Walid
Date
2001
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3142
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1160

Ra’ad’s video narrates the story of Souheil Bachar, the sole Arabic hostage to be held in a Beirut cell with westerners Terry Anderson and Terry Waite in the mid 1980s …

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Planet of the Arabs
Creators
Salloum, Jacqueline
Date
2003
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3143
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1161

A trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood’s relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims …

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Six Questions for the Lebanese
Creators
Khan, Hassan
Date
2001
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3141
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1159

In swooping pans of the reconstruction area of downtown Beirut, a vertiginous array of commentary and analysis follows …

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Sometime/Somewhere
Creators
Khan, Hassan
Date
2001
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3137
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1155

An attempt at exploring the fluid framing of a personal identity in relation to an outside.. ...

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Sorry
Creators
Yekta, Mahmoud
Date
2003
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/2974
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=979

Sorry is an aesthetic response to the ongoing debate in Australia about the necessity for an official apology to the indigenous people by white settlers for historic cruelties.

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Tabla Dubb #9
Creators
Khan, Hassan
Date
2003
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3139
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1157

Khan mixes the music he has created out of the intersection between the tabla and electronica to video loops shot and edited to accompany that music …

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This Day
Creators
Zaatari, Akram
Date
2003
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3132
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1150

In a thoughtful, dreamlike montage, the Beirut-based video artist examines archival photos, from portraits of Bedouins in the desert to the bomb-rent sky over the Lebanese capital …

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This is the Political Film
Creators
Khan, Hassan
Date
1998
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3140
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1158

This is the Political Film uses the cut-up to hyper load a sentence that becomes a slogan …

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Try
Creators
Sabsabi, Khaled
Date
2004
Medium
Screen
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3134
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1152

Too many cultures? Rain is a sign of hope; and Try can make for some deeply unsettling insight into how people are dealing with our world today …

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