CINEMAEAST NEW YORK FALL 2003:

CinemEast presented its first a nine month-long film series, held in collaboration with the Department of Middle East Studies at New York University. CinemaEast featured a diverse array of films from the Middle East and their diaspora. The program was showcased in New York and traveled to film and art institutions throughout the country. 

The film series took place every other saturday, beginning September 13, 2003.
All screenings and panel discussions were held at the Cantor Theater at New York University

Cantor Film Center
New York University
36 East 8th Street

 Click here for the schedule and information on films

Cinema East is a collaborative project of ArteEast, Inc. and the Department of Middle East Studies at NYU. The program is co-sponsored by The Center for Gender and Sexuality, NYU; The Office of International Students, NYU; The Film Department, NYU; and the Moon and Stars Project. ArteEast is a fiscally sponsored organization of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
     
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    “NOT AT EAST” artist salon series featuring Lebanese filmmaker
Ghassan Salhab
Arts International, co-sponsored by Arte East, invites you to the third of their fall 2003 series.

Reception and Artist presentation: Thursday, Nov. 6, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Arts International
251 Park Avenue South (btw. 20th and 21st Sts. ), 5th floor

Salhab will screen and discuss two of his experimental short videos, La rose de personne (1998) and his latest work, Mon corps vivant, mon corps mort (2003).

Admission is FREE but please RSVP to lwalton@artsinternational.org or
(212) 674-9744 ext. 107 if you would like to attend.

Born in Dakar, Senegal in 1958, Ghassan Salhab moved to Beirut in 1970, and to Paris in 1975. Since then, he has  divided his time between Beirut and Paris.  Among his works are two feature length films, Terra incognita (2002) which was selected for the category "Un Certain regard" at Cannes, and Beyrouth fantôme (1998). He is a writer, contributing to Adab, an Arabic review of art and literature, and also a videomaker.  His short works include videos such as De la séduction (with Nesrine Khodr) and Baalbeck (with Mohamed Souei and Akram Zaatari, 2002).

“Not at East” is a series of performances, conversations, screenings and readings that is part of Arts International's Islamic World Arts Initiative supported by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art and the New York State Council on the Arts.  For more information, visit www.artsinternational.org

Ghassan Salhab's film Terra Incognita will be screened on Nov. 8 at 6 pm as a part of CinemaEast
     
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Road 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
A film by Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan
November 18, 2003...(more)