From the Archive: Media Criticism and the Middle East

The Film/Video Studio archive catalogues the diverse projects that have been supported since 1991. This program highlights the studio’s history of supporting artists and filmmakers dedicated to political advocacy and media activism. In My Beard Forever (1999), Afif Arabi reveals the impact of stereotypes in news coverage of the Middle East on an anonymous Arab American man. Jayce Salloum and Walid Raad’s Talaeen a Junuub (Up to the South, 1993) highlights the myriad forms of South Lebanese resistance against Israeli occupation in the early 1990s, and the resulting ways such resistance is misrepresented by Western institutions. Decades later, both works continue to resonate with the ongoing politicized violence in the region and Islamophobia in mass media. (program approx. 77 mins., DCP) 

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IMAGE CAPTION 
Talaeen a Junuub, courtesy of the artist. 

Program lineup 

• My Beard Forever (Afif Arabi, 1999, 17 mins., DCP)  
  Supported by a 1999 Film/Video Studio residency.  
• Talaeen A Junuub (Up to The South, Jayce Salloum and Walid Raad, 1993, 60 mins., DCP, in English, Arabic, and French with English subtitles) 
  Supported by a 1993 Film/Video Studio residency.