Always Already: Dystopian Temporalities
Wed 11.05.
19:00
Cinema
Arsenal 1
The past two decades has seen an “ecological turn” in contemporary art ranging from activism to views on speculative/dystopian futures. Through a screening of two recent films by artist-filmmaker Panos Aprahamian, this event considers what The Otolith Group calls “a science fiction of the present.”
The screening will be followed by a discussion between the filmmaker and Hala Auji (EUME Fellow 2021/22). A collaboration with Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME).
Director
Panos Aprahamian
Lebanon / 2021
6 min.
/ Digital file
/ Original version with English subtitles
Original language
Arabic
Panos Aprahamian’s science-fiction documentary ODORLESS BLUE FLOWERS AWAKE PREMATURELY explores Beirut’s peripheral rustbelt on the banks of the city’s river which was affected by the blast on August 4, 2020.
Director
Panos Aprahamian
Lebanon / 2021
30 min.
/ Digital file
/ Original version with English subtitles
Original language
Arabic, Armenian
THIS HAUNTING MEMORY THAT IS NOT MY OWN (Lebanon 2021) is an investigation of how economic growth and environmental decay are interlinked and entrenched in social and ecological injustice.
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