Saturday 29 May, 14:10h
Resistance(s) III
NFT3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8TX
Tickets £5.00, to book call our box office on 020 7928 3232

To celebrate the release of RESISTANCE[S] III the third volume of a DVD collection of experimental film and video art from the Middle East and North Africa by French DVD label Lowave, we are thrilled to present a programme curated by Silke Schmickl and Christine Sehnaoui. The programme will feature films by artists from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, showing challenging works that witness the region’s complexity, vitality and diversity of creative energies.

- 3494 Houses + 1 Fence (Fabian Astore & Mireille Astore, Australia/Lebanon, 2006, 6')
- We began by measuring distance (Basma Alsharif, Palestine, 2009, 19')
- Run Lara Run (Larissa Sansour, Palestine, 2')

- Résonances (Ismail Bahri, Tunisia, 2008, 7')
- Les illuminés (Halida Boughriet, Algeria, 2007, 1'37)
- This smell of sex (Danielle Arbid, Lebanon-France, 2008, 20')

- Play (Waheeda Malullah, Bahrein, 2005, 2'40)
- Revolution (Khaled Hafez, Egypt, 2006, 4')
- La parade de Taos (Nazim Djemaï, France/Algeria, 2009, 19')

The programme will be introduced by Silke Schmickl and we hope to have some of the artists present for a Q&A after the screening. DVD launch reception at the Filmstore after the programme.