Tag Archives: Abounaddara
Outside the Cave, film still ©Abounaddara The audience La Vie des Idées: For whom do you make your films? How are they perceived by the various audiences you have encountered? Abounaddara: We make films because it is the most useful thing we can do for the revolution. However, we do not subscribe to activist cinema […]
[Starting at the end of 2015, documenta 14 posted the weekly ’emergency cinema’ videos of the Syrian collective Abounaddara on its website and Facebook page. As part of A Curriculum of Imposters (Here & Now, There & Then, On & On), I am reposting these videos, as well as screenshots of the original website posts […]
The first time a Syrian was represented in cinema was in 1897, in a film by the Lumière brothers that enacted the assassination of General Kléber by a fanatic names Suleiman.
We have only allocated an hour to write this post, so we don’t have time to discuss that infamous memo (we mean here the Nunes memo, not Trump himself) Given this time-crunch we’re merely going to see how the posts from our allocated two week period from last year (Jan. 23-Feb 5) fit into the […]
