"On the Edge of Empire: Explorations of the Time-Image"

Tala Hadid, born in London and trained as a painter, is the author of several works of fiction, a filmmaker, and producer whose work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the NationalMuseum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C . Hadid's film Tes Cheveux Noirs Ihsan, which received a student Academy Award in 2005, was screened at numerous film festivals around the world.

Her selection encompasses films from Lebanon to the heart of Europe, from Egypt to the Sudan, where the image continues to be approached in radical and formally interesting ways by artists on the 'edge of empire'. A selection of work where the image comes to be a place of resistance, a site of exploration, of different ways of seeing, that continues to challenge the hegemonic norms of image production.

Titles Include:
"Insan / Human Being" Ibrahim Shaddad, Sudan, 27 min.
"Transit" Taysir Batniji, France/Gaza, 2001, 8 min.
"Vue Aerienne" Bouchra Khalili, Morocco, 2006, 10 min.
"Ana/ICH" Susana Hefuna, Germany/Egypt, 2006, 3.32 min.
"Visions of a contaminated Memory" Khaled Hafez, Egypt, 2007, 6 min.
"La Femme Seul" Brahim Fritah, France, 2005, 24 min.

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