Introduction -- Cinematic friendships : intercessors, collectives, perturbations -- The language of terrorism : Elia Suleiman's film practice -- Arab cinema unfolds -- Mohamed Soueid's cinema of immanence -- Communism, dream deferred -- Can cinema slow the flow of blood? -- Asphalt nomadism -- Archival romances -- Hala Elkoussy : framing chaos -- Hassan Khan : the social contract -- Mounir Fatmi : protective aniconism -- Algorithm, decryption, glitch -- Images in motion, from haptic vision to networked space -- Sherif El Azma : a cinema of cruelty -- What can a body do?
Summary
An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers' creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times
Analysis
ARTS/Photography & Film/History, Theory & Criticism
