[Nettime-bold] salloum vbc screening

[JSalloum@aol.com]

(apologies for cross posting)


Canadian premiere
of a new videotape by Jayce Salloum:
'everything and nothing'

An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a 
figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese National 
Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in 
El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had been 
detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation.


One screening only
as part of the Signal & Noise Festival
@ Video In
Friday, March 22, 9:30pm
followed by a Q&A

Video In
1965 Main Street, Vancouver:
single screening $5

for more info: (604)872-8337

exhibit@telus.net


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Full videotape description:
                                                    

everything and nothing
part 1 from the continuous tape, ‘untitled’
Jayce Salloum, 40:40, orig format MiniDV, France/Canada, 2001

An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a 
figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara* ex-Lebanese National 
Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in 
El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had been 
detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation. Revising notions of resistance, 
discussing the recounting to death of her account, the nature of survival, 
will, separation, distance and closeness, the overexposed image and body of a 
surviving martyr speaks quietly and directly into the camera juxtaposed 
against her self and image, not speaking of the torture but of the distance 
between the subject and the loss, of what is left behind and what remains.

*Soha Bechara is a heroine in Lebanon, pictures of her are seen in many 
houses in the South and posters of her were seen all around downtown Beirut 
when I was working there in the early 90’s.  She was captured for trying to 
assassinate the general of the SLA (Israel's proxy army), Antoine Lahad. This 
video material that I recorded of the time spent with her is not precious, 
just time, and a conversation, and intense intimacy at a close and 
unbreachable distance.
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Screenings to date include; MoneyNations2, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; 
Ayam Bayrout al Cinemaiya, Beirut; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Arab Screen 
Independent Film Festival, Doha, Qatar; Artists Television Access/Arab Film 
Festival, San Francisco; Arab & Iranian Film Festival, NYC; Argos Film & 
Video Festival, Brussels; The World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam; The 
Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec; Biennale de l’image en Mouvement 
(Biennial of Moving Images), Geneva; and upcoming at the Pacific Film A
rchives, Berkeley, and YYZ, Toronto.






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