Films

Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem

D: Akram Zaatari, Lebanon / France 2015, 105 min | Showing first: Rabbit's Moon, 7 min

Fri, Jul 16, 2021
10 pm
Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem (film still)

Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem

Akram Zaatari’s film Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem explores the work of photographer Hashem el Madani, who has run a commercial photography studio in southern Lebanon for the last five decades. After spending years photographing people in front of their shops, in public squares or at the beach, el Madani opened the studio in response to his community’s desire to appear before the camera. Moving between el Madani’s studio in Saïda and the Arab Image Foundation – an image archive in Beirut now housing the majority of el Madani’s photographic collection – the film examines the changing sites, status and function of photographic practice and preservation though various analogue and digital media.

Showing first:

Rabbit's Moon

D: Kenneth Anger, USA 1950/1978, 7 min
Rabbit’s Moon is “a lunar dream utilizing the classic pantomime figure of Pierrot in an encounter with a prankish, enchanted lantern.” (Kenneth Anger)