FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2003 16:00 – 20:00
Address
Barbara Lee-Störck, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest
Khalil Abou Hadid, Ambassador of the Arab Republic Syria in Hungary
Impulse Lectures
Simonetta Ferfoglia, Christoph Euler, Irene Lucas
The Transfer Project Damascus: processing translocal displays and the potential of their reproduction -
the experiment of a phenomenology of visual narratives
Simonetta Ferfoglia, Christoph Euler-Rolle and Irene Lucas are visual artists in Vienna
Ali Atassi
Preconditions and perspectives of art and media in the Middle East:
some tangible hypotesis on dispositives of cultural production.
Ali Atassi is internationally active journalist and filmmaker based in Damascus and Beirut
Karin Kneissl
Global fragmentation along cultural lines - what can diplomacy and foreign cultural policy achieve in this scenario?
Karin Kneissl is politics scientist, journalist, lecturer at universities in Vienna and Beirut
Roza El Hassan
R. thinking / Dreaming About Overpopulation [Zürich Version] Video, 18 min, 2001, 2002, 2003
The third part of the action / work which was performed in Belgrad, Budapest and Zürich: screening & discussion
Roza El Hassan is conceptual artist and videomaker in Budapest
Panel Discussion
Dana Charkasi, Moderation
Dana Charkasi is politics scientist and journalist, correspondent of the Jordan Times
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2003 16:00 – 20:00
Film- and Videoprogram
face A face B, Rabih Mroué
Video, 9 min, Lebanon 2002
„In the past we had the habit of recording audiotapes to our brothers living abroad...“
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Tehran 1380, Solmaz Shahbazi and Tirdad Zolghadr
Video, 52 min, Iran 2001
Most European films on the region are defined by one of two narratives, that of the exotic orient, or that of the danger of fundamentalism.
Tehran 1380 discusses these narratives, comparing them to a historical narrative of its own.
Solmaz Shahbazi and Tirdad Zolghadr give insights on Tehran 1380 and related topics
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Cargo, Laura Waddington
Video, 29 min, NL 2001
A woman tells the story of a journey she made on a cargo boat to the Middle East.
„Later, I took the most abstract images and made a narrative, that falls between reality and fiction.“
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The Conference is held in English
Mr. Atassi’s lecture is held in French with English translation