Design and Art Australia Online

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 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 …

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 …

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

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

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 …

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 …

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

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

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

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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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 …

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 …

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

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 …