Screenings
ALLAHU AKBAR playing Monday September 20 2010
Vancouver BC Canada,DIM Cinema, Pacific Cinematheque Theatre.
From Aniconism to Bliss: Media art shows its Islamic roots Curated by Laura U Marks.
Particle bursts, mystical abstraction, and an intelligent suspicion of figurative images—qualities of some of the most thrilling media art works have deep origins in the great arts of Islam. Film, video, and digital works from the 1960s to the 2000 celebrate, knowingly or not, their Islamic origins. Mounir Fatmi and Peggy Ahwesh propose a sober aniconism in response to a contemporary image-world of pornography and murder. In works by Takeshi Murata and Cory Arcangel a giddy iconoclasm takes over. Doug Richardson’s analog vector experiments, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries’ insistent jazzy textualism, and Usama Alshaibi’s shimmying geometries celebrate the liberation from image making. The pixelline universe twinkles in the works of Walid Ra’ad, Paul Sharits, and Ghieth al-Amine, and finally Eric Siegel’s analog abstractions take us into the blissful beyond of the image.
Media works by: Peggy Ahwesh, Gahith Al-Amine, Usama Alshaibi, Cory Arcangel, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Mounir Fatmi, Takeshi Murata, Walid Ra’ad, Doug Richardson, Paul Sharits, and Eric Siegel.
This program by Laura U. Marks coincides with the publication of her book Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art. Presented in conjunction with the book’s launch at Centre A on Monday, September 13.
Husband and wife collaborators Usama and Kristie Alshaibi are presenting some rarely seen short videos created between 1997 and 2010. This will include early 16mm films by both directors as well as a number of collaborations shot on a wide array of mediums.
In addition, we will premiere a trailer of Usama’s new feature length movie, “Profane.”
The Alshaibis will be selling copies of their limited edition book A History of Flying Vaginas and their DVD of short artfully perverse films titled “Solar Anus Cinema.”
The event is FREE. But please help the Alshaibis in any way you can by buying merchandise or contributing to http://profanemovie.com to help raise finishing funds for the new feature. BYOB.
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MY THIRD PAINTING playing June 16-20, 2010 at The National Museum, PERFORMANCE INTERMEDIA, Poland
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Solar Anus Cinema plays at BUTFF in Netherlands, September 9-13, 2009.
------------------------------------------------------SELECTED SCREENINGS ARCHIVE (2006-2009)
Extrapool in Nijmegen, Netherlands March 20, 2009Printers' Ball, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago August 2008
Nice Bombs, New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archive, NYC, September 10, 2008
Nice Bombs,Sundance Channel broadcast on March 19, 2008
Nice Bombs,Theatrical Release: Pioneer Theater, NYC & Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, July, 2007
Nice Bombs, New York Underground Film Festival; Anthology Film Center, March, 2007
World Premiere Nice Bombs , Chicago Underground Film Festival; Music Box Theater, August 17, 2006
Coding:Decoding: Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, 2006
SELECTED SCREENINGS ARCHIVE (2000-2005)
Gene Siskel Film Center; VIDEO BABYLON (Iraqi Video Showcase); Chicago; November 20, 2004
The 8th Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin; 2004
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland; 2004
Channel 83 festival of media, Florence, Italy 2004
Select Media Festival: Regime Change For US Tour; Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Paris, Chicago 2003
Cinema of Transgression Retrospective; Pioneer Theater; New York, NY; 2003
eKsperim[E]nt3 Film Festival; Manila, Philippines; 2003
Microcinema International; Paris, Mexico City, New York City, San Francisco; 2002
Coney Island Short Film Festival; New York; September 2002
Microcinefest; Baltimore; 2002
Melbourne Underground Film Festival; Australia; July 2002
Featured Director; Chicago Deep Dish Underground; Brighton Cinematheque, England; 2002
Pink Bubble Bath: The Sexy Film Festival; San Francisco, CA; February 2002
Chamber of Pop Culture; Horse Hospital, London, England; December 2001
Featured Director: Light Plays Tricks Short Film Festival; Kingston, Ontario, Canada; October 2001
CAN TV - Channel 19; Chicago, IL; June 2001
Museum of Contemporary Art; Summer Solstice; Chicago, IL; June 2001
Digital Talkies; New Delhi, India; March 2001
Boston Underground Film Festival; Boston, MA; February 2001
Eyeball Music Showcase; Athens, Georgia; October 2000
Euro Underground Film Festival; Krakow, Poland; October 2000
New York Underground Film Festival; New York, NY; March 2000