Why did the documenta 14 team blur the still from Abounaddara’s film Aleppo on their Facebook page? Responding to artnet News’ request for comment, documenta 14 deferred to a statement by artistic director Adam Szymczyk in which he states: “In its magnitude and systemic nature of state-orchestrated destruction of an entire race, the Holocaust remains […]

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 […]