The Unfixed Itineraries symposium encourages innovative perspectives on Arab film and visual culture, emphasizing its plurality, the complex itineraries by which it is produced, and the multiple trajectories through which it can be experienced. Artists and scholars will visit from Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Europe and the US. Work presented will cover a wide area of forms, styles and thematic concerns. Featuring participation and work by:
Livia Alexander • Michael Allan • Ahmed Bouanani • Dore Bowen • Ali Cherri • Kay Dickinson • Tarek El-Ariss • Nouri Gana • John Greyson • Lamia Joreige • Hassan Khan • Marie El Khazen • Sunaina Maira • Nabil Maleh • Susette Min • Stefania Pandolfo • Larissa Sansour • Zineb Sedira • Jeffrey Skoller
With special guest: Moumen Smihi
Symposium screenings, panels and presentations will address topics such as:
Movement and Extra-territoriality
Itineraries of Intertextuality
Past, Present and Future Itineraries
Narrative and non-Narrative Itineraries
Archives, Images, Memory.
9:00AM-9:00PM
Free and open to the public.
Parking $4
Join us for a concurrent exhibition at UCSC's Sesnon Gallery October 25-Dec 10.
The events also coincide with a retrospective of the work of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, curated by UCSC professor Peter Limbrick, at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, October 10-27. More info about the Berkeley retrospective here.
The organizers wish to thank Porter College, the
Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence, the Department of Feminist Studies, the UC
Davis Division of Social Science, the UC Davis Institute for Social
Sciences, and the following sponsors for their generous support of
this event:
UCSC Arts Division
Porter College, UCSC
UCSC Arts Research Institute
UC Humanities Research Institute
Centre Cinématographique Marocain
UC Davis Division of Social Sciences
Center for Documentary Arts and Research
UCSC Film & Digital Media Department