Accented Video & the Autobiographical Short Video Program and Discussion Curated by Aisha Jamal & Sarah Shamash
Accented Video & the Autobiographical is a program of seven short films from contemporary artists living in Canada who explore ideas of biography through personal trajectories, dealing with notions of exile, migration, Diaspora and identity.
Imago (2011)
Sebnem Ozpeta
4.25mins (no dialogue)
About the Sea (2006)
Sobhi Al-Zobaidi
8.58mins (Arabic with English Subtitles)
ID Check (2003)
Faisal Anwar
2mins (no dialogue)
Ariadne’s Thread (2009)
Sarah Shamash
12.26mins (no dialogue)
An (un)original Love (2010)
Aisha Jamal
4.19mins (English)
Once You’ve Shot the Gun, You Can’t Stop the Bullet (1988)
Jayce Salloum
7.10mins (Arabic and English)
Homecoming (2011)
Martin Zeilinger
7.22mins (English)
Running time approximately 50 minutes.
Discussion will be carried out in English