- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. reference copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
color.
fullscreen. sound.
- Notes:
- Essay booklet available from checkout.
Titles
+ Intensive Care
- Director:
- Güleryüz, Hatice
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Turkey
- Year:
- 2001
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- The violent surgical act of a boy’s circumcision is contradicted by the peacefulness of his facial expression. Proud to join the world of men, the boy is trying his best to be brave. Yet can the passage to adulthood be that simple?
+ First Ones, The
- Director:
- Güleryüz, Hatice
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Turkey
- Year:
- 2000
- Language:
- Turkish
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, With Songs, Female Directors
- Notes:
- The Turkish national anthem, regularly sung in schools on Mondays and Fridays, is recorded with Super-8 and video to capture the fragile links that tie young citizens to nationhood.
+ I’ve Heard Stories 1
- Alternate Title:
- I’ve Heard Stories 1: “Nora Says” After Nora’s Testimony
- Director:
- Arsanios, Marwa
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Lebanon
- Year:
- 2008
- Language:
- English and Arabic intertitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Animation, Lgbt Interest, Female Directors
- Notes:
- This short animation explores various ways to narrate an incident that once took place in the mythical Hotel Carlton. Against images of the deserted hotel today, the artist sketches situations that evoke the rumors that once circulated around the place and the people who inhabited it.
+ We Will Win
- Director:
- Hojeij, Mahmoud
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Lebanon
- Year:
- 2006
- Language:
- English with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary
- Notes:
- The filmmaker and his friend, both Lebanese, meet two Israelis their own age in Paris, and spend some playful time with them. While they play a game, they refer constantly and humorously to the war and to the frozen status quo between the two countries.
+ I, Soldier
- Alternate Title:
- Ben Askerim
- Director:
- Ergun, Köken
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Turkey
- Year:
- 2005
- Language:
- Turkish with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Performance, With Songs
- Notes:
- “The first part of a video series in which I am dealing with the state-controlled ceremonies for the national days of the Turkish Republic. The nationalistic attributes attached to these large-scale ceremonies are underlined in a non-descriptive and almost voyeuristic point of view. I, Soldier was shot at the National Day for Youth and Sports; the day that marks the start of the independence war of the Turkish public under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, against the Allied Forces back in 1919. The annual ceremony held at the biggest stadium of each city consists of figurative dances by high school students, choreographed in a timeless socialist-realist manner. In the last decade, popular songs replaced the usual military marches, which accompanied the choreography. In this video a nationalist hip-hop song is played during the gymnastic demonstrations of the military school students backed by a stern poem from a high-ranking soldier about the virtues of “The Soldier”." --Köken Ergun
+ Homage by Assassination
- Director:
- Suleiman, Elia
- Running Time:
- Short. 28 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA, Palestinian Territories, Tunisia
- Year:
- 1992
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary
- Notes:
- A Palestinian filmmaker is writing a script in his New York apartment during the first Gulf war. As much as he tries to shut himself off from the exterior world, images of past wars in the Middle East come back to haunt him.