Réal : Akram Zaatari

2003. Liban, 1h26 min

Based on research into the circulation of images in the Arab world, « This Day » is a voyage through geography and memory via a recording of the everyday. Beginning in the 1950s with historian Jibrail Jabbur’s photograph of a Bedouin woman holding a jar on her head in a village at the edge of the Syrian desert, the video acts as a laboratory in which images-drawn from institutional and private archives-gain new meaning when viewed alongside one another.

Dir: Akram Zaatari

2003. Lebanon. 86 min

Written, directed, and cinematography by Akram Zaatari.

Produced by Musée Nicéphore Niepce, France.


Screening: Friday, October 7, 2011, 4:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2 (Introduced by Ghossein)
Screening: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 1:30 p.m., Theater 2, T2 (Introduced by Ghossein)
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