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Wednesday, Oct 9, 2024
7:00 PM (66 mins)
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Abounaddara Shorts
In Conversation
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Charif Kiwan is a founding member of the anonymous video collective Abounaddara. Abounaddara (“the man with the movie camera”) is a Syrian filmmakers’ collective that has been working anonymously since its founding in Damascus in 2010.
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Stefania Pandolfo is a Professor of Anthropology and is in the Medical Anthropology Program and the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley.
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Anneka Lenssen is an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at UC Berkeley.
Characterized by stunning montage and unsettling encounters, Abounaddara’s short films depict people in dialogue with themselves and others amid the intimate revelations of a society undergoing transformation, revolution, and civil war. An anonymous collective of filmmakers established in Damascus, Syria, in 2010, the group attuned its cameras to signs of radical possibility in the everyday. This curated program accompanies the opening of the exhibition Abounaddara: The Ruins We Carry, drawing from Abounaddara’s living archive of nearly three hundred shorts made between 2010 and 2017. Selections disclose animating themes within the group’s utopian realist oeuvre, among them questions of image makers and creation, of life and death during revolution, and of illumination in war.
—Stefania Pandolfo and Anneka Lenssen
Films in this Screening
Believers without Borders
Syria, 2010
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- Digital
- 5 mins
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The Smiters for Damascus
Syria, 2010
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- Color
- Digital
- 5 mins
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- Abounaddara
The Old Man and Jihad
Syria, 2010
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Digital
- 5 mins
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- Abounaddara
The Mother and the Dogs
Syria, 2010
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Digital
- 5 mins
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- Abounaddara
Then What?
Syria, 2011
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- Digital
- 2 mins
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- Abounaddara
I Will Cross Tomorrow
Syria, 2012
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Digital
- 4 mins
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- Abounaddara
So It Was Made to Appear to Them
Syria, 2013
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Digital
- 3 mins
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- Abounaddara
Marcel—Part 2
Syria, 2014
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Color
- Digital
- 2 mins
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- Abounaddara
Marcel—Part 3
Syria, 2014
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Digital
- 3 mins
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- Abounaddara
The Islamic State for Dummies—Part One
Syria, 2013
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Digital
- 3 mins
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- Abounaddara
Rejoice in Raqqa
Syria, 2016
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Digital
- 4 mins
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- Abounaddara
The Fly
Syria, 2015
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- Color
- Digital
- 2 mins
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- Abounaddara
The Battle of Aleppo
Syria, 2016
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Color
- Digital
- 10 mins
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- Abounaddara
Of Gods and Dogs
Syria, 2014
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- Arabic
- with English subtitles
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- Digital
- 13 mins
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- Abounaddara
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