Tag Archives: Abounaddara
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 […]
In 2013, Mohammad Ali Atassi and several colleagues formed Bidayyat: an organization that sought to teach Syrians how to make documentaries so they could take ownership of their wartime narratives. It was one of several such initiatives in Syria. An anonymous collective called Abounaddara had been active since 2010 with a focus on “emergency cinema,” […]
Every night I sat watching [TV] with a shutter release in my hand… In the middle of the week the shooting of students by National Guardsmen occurred at Kent State University. This tragic event produced the most powerful images that emerged from the camera, yet I felt a reluctance to use any of them. It […]