August 9th – 12th
Global Revolutions / Local Contradictions, A Mindpirates Project
Citizens Reporting, a Collective Memory
The second iteration of Global Revolutions / Local Contradictions, curated by Dina Kafafi, Jens Maier-Rothe and Azin Feizabadi, entails a series of talks, discussions and film screenings that address the emergence of citizen journalism due to the rapid transformation of the social and political climate within the Middle East. The formal lines between journalism and other professional fields blur as people from different backgrounds become the reporters who contest censorship and restore transparency across media channels. On four days, the program looks at various forms of reporting that surfaced in response to recent moments of crises, social change and political struggle, and asks how these forms may eventually shift the dynamic relations between notions of citizenship, social awareness, historiography and collective memory.
Thursday, August 9th
16:00 Talk | The Changing Media Landscape in the Middle East by Tarek Atia (Journalist, Cairo)
17:00 Talk | CitJo – A Work Report by Sarah Wali (CitJo, Cairo)
18:15 Discussion with Tarek Atia & Sarah Wali
19:30 Talk | Creative Time Reports by Marisa Katz (Creative Time, New York)
22:00 Film | Roadmap to Apartheid (90′, 2011, USA/IL/ZA) by Ana Nogueira and Eron Davidson
Friday, August 10th
16:00 Talk | Stefan Winkler (Goethe Institute, Cairo)
17:00 Talk | Mosireen – A Work Report by Jasmina Metwaly (Mosireen Collective, Egypt)
18:30 Film | 1/2 Revolution (72’, 2012, EG/FR) by Karim El Hakim & Omar Shargawi
20:15 Discussion with Jasmina Metwaly & Stefan Winkler
21:00 Film | The Aesthetics of Protest (30’, 2010, IR) by Hamed Yousefi
Saturday, August 11th
12:00 Film | La Jetée (30’, 1969, FR) by Chris Marker
12:30 Talk | Seeing Histories by Kaya Behkalam (Filmmaker, Cairo/Berlin)
14:00 Film | The Silent Majority Speaks (93′, 2010, IR) by The Silent Collective
16:30 Film | First Case, Second Case (50’, 1979 – 1981, IR) by Abbas Kiarostami
17:30 Talk | A Collective Memory: Poetics, Politics & Love Letters by Azin Feizabadi (Artist, Tehran/Berlin)
Sunday, August 12th
12:00 Talk | Orwa Nyrabia (Director of DoxBox, Syria)
13:00 Talk | Cultures of Resistance by Iara Lee (Filmmaker, Brazil/Korea)
14:30 Film | The Suffering Grasses (60’, 2012, TR) by Iara Lee
15:30 Discussion with Iara Lee & Orwa Nyrabia
Made possible with the kind support of Goethe Institute Cairo
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