Abounaddara has agreed to share this film with documenta 14; it is one of over 300 films produced on a weekly basis by an anonymous collective of Syrian filmmakers. By sharing these films on our website since November 27, 2015, Abounaddara aims to build alliances for the collective’s call for a change in the standards […]
Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like is a new minus plato? weekly radio show inspired by 34 Exercises of Freedom at documenta 14, held in Athens, Greece in September 2016. The show has been created for the online class Art Education 2600: Visual Culture: Representation and Society that I’m currently teaching at This Ohio State University. […]
I just read today’s Facebook post by Abounaddara – the anonymous Syrian film collective who participated in documenta 14 in 2017 and whose weekly films from 10 years ago I have been posting each Friday. In the post, which acts as a press release (and which I have copied and pasted in full below), Abounaddara […]
I have already seen Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey twice and I enjoyed the experience both times, including talking about it afterwards, both for its merits as a film (especially its timely commentary on the devastation of war, male arrogance and violent deception), and also in how it relates to Homer’s poem (e.g. its incorporation of […]
After a break this Summer, I am catching up on my Friday Abounaddara video posting, 10 years after they were originally posted on the Syrian film collective’s website and the documenta 14 website in 2016. You can find the links to the videos I’ve missed at the bottom of this post, with the dates that […]
