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Lebanese Touring ProgramChronicles of a Paradise Lost: Filming Absence (Lebanese Cinema 1965-2010)October 31, 2012 Through a selection of rarely seen gems from decades past, as well as recent releases that have not circulated widely, Chronicles of Paradise Lost: Filming Absence draws a portrait of a young cinema coming into its own. Works on view engage with the complication of internecine conflicts, the poignant experience of surviving violence, reconciliation, and rebuilding, and the oscillations between forgetting and remembering. The program includes 9 feature-length films, 10 nonfiction narrative films and 8 short films in DigiBETA and DVD formats, in Arabic with English subtitles. Some films from the 1970s and 1980s in the program have been restored, digitized and made available for screening for the first time in North America and Europe. Program Fee: 20% of the total screening fees for the films booked at your venue Calendar April 12, 2011 7:00. pm HCB 103 - FSU Main Campus Lebanese Film Festival at Florida State University hosts a selection of films from ArteEast's touring Lebanese Program: After Shave by Hani Tamba (France; 2005, 26 min.) The Road North by Carlos Chahine (Lebanon/France; 2008, 25 min.) For more information please click here. March 1, 2011 6:00 - 8:00 PM FedEx Global Education Center, UNC - Chapel Hill Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations hosts a screening of Ghassan Salhab's 1958. The screening is sponsored by Duke - UNC Consortium for Middle East studies. For more information please click here. February 4 - April 29 - 2011 Hagop Kevorkian Center at NYU, 50 Washington Square South This selection of films from ArteEast's Lebanese Touring Program includes: Fri, Feb 4, 4-6pm, Visual Culture/Lebanese Cinema Fri, Feb 25, 4-6pm, Visual Culture/Lebanese Cinema Fri, Apr 29, 4-6pm, Visual Culture/Lebanese Cinema Films Press  The Calm After the Storm: Making Sense of Lebanon's Civil War, Official Press Release
The New York Times (May 2, 2010) The Week Ahead: May 2 – May 8, by Stephen Holden The Nation (May 17, 2010) The Abnormal Norm, by Stuart Klawans Featured event in Around Town, French Institute (Alliance Française) website The Village Voice (May 4, 2010) Lebanese film series illustrates the absence of sense in a 15-year fight, by Michael Atkinson click here for article online. Annahar (May 12, 2010) جريدة النهار Now Lebanon (May 5, 2010) Lebanese cinema in the Big Apple, Talking to Rasha Salti, by Farrah Zughni click here for article online. Al Mustaqbal (May 8, 2010) ريما المسمار, المستقبل Poster Exhibition LEBANESE FILM POSTERS The Calm After the Storm: Making Sense of Lebanon’s Civil War Click here to view selection of posters and submit request for inclusion in your program today! When the first Lebanese films were released in the late 1920s and early 1930s, posters were not produced to accompany their public showcase. Film promotion before the 1950s included mural advertisements in streets and public spaces and printed brochures (with images and brief information) distributed in the theaters where the films screened. Posters, whose size exceeded the off-set printing standard of 70 cm x 100 cm, appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s, intended specifically for the promotion of fiction features such as: By the Will of Fate (Hukm al-Qadar, Joseeh Ghorayeb, 1959), Days of My Life (Ayyam men ‘Omri, Georges Qa‘i, 1959), The Devil’s Chariot (‘Arabat al-Shaytan, Georges Qa‘i, 1962), Shoushou and the Million (Shoushou Wal Malyion, Antoine Rémy, 1962), A Bedouin Girl in Paris (Badawiyyah fi Barees, Antoine Rémy, 1964), The Black Jaguar (Al-Jagwar al-Sawdah, Mohamed Selman, 1965) and The Ring Seller (Bayya‘ al-Khawatem, Youssef Chahine, 1965). These mural renderings were hand-painted, using very bright colors and dramatic compositions. Reproductions in the standard 70 cm x 100 cm eventually became commonplace by the middle of the 1960s. The artists who executed them were dedicated to this new craft and some became well known. The giant billboards adorned entrances and halls of theaters, some were even placed in public spaces. Their visual vocabulary was directly inspired, if not copied, from posters produced in Egypt. With the advancement in printing, transfer and photography technologies, compositions began to include photographic images, and dissemination became cheaper and wider. A smaller size, 50 cm x 70 cm became popular and posters were granted a specific space (billboards) in the design of street architecture. The Ministry of Culture has been collecting and preserving film posters throughout the history of cinema in Lebanon. Curated by Dima Raad and Rasha Salti Organized by The Ministry of Culture, Republic of Lebanon 
Book this Program Today! To cover the costs of subtitling and digital restoration ArteEast charges a program fee: 20% of the cost of screening fees for the films booked. For example if you select films two films whose screening fees totaled $200, the program fee would be $40 To book a selection of films contact Barrak Alzaid at filminfo@arteeast.org |
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