Screening ‘Soon’
Great turnout and Q&A at the Dragon Boat Film Festival in Denver, screening our film ‘Soon.’
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‘Soon’ playing at the Dragon Boat Film Festival
We play again in Denver, come check out the Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival, and watch our film Soon at Sie FilmCenter – H2 – Maglione Theater, March 11, 2023, at 11:00 AM
http://www.cdfilm.org
Allahu Akbar showing in France at the Centre d’art Madeleine-Lambert
A hypnotic video by Usama Alshaibi, reproduces geometric Islamic drawings, taken from a book offered by his father, which he scanned. “They are charged with a transcendental value and show that divine perfection passes through geometry.”
https://www.expressions-venissieux.fr/2022-12-22-centre-dart-madeleine-lambert-avec-motifs-apparents/
DVD releases
TetroVideo, a distributor in Italy has been re-releasing my older films in these limited redesigned DVD’s. Check it out: https://tetrovideo.com/shop/profane-dvd-ultralimited-mediabook-edition/
Group show in France
My film Allahu Akbar will be screening as part of a group exhibition titled:”Sur le motif” (“On the Pattern”) at the Center d’art Madeleine-Lambert in Vénissieux, France, from December 17, 2022 to February 25, 2023.
Denver Film Festival
Our short film ‘Soon’ will have its Colorado premiere at the Denver Film Festival, the largest film festival in the Rocky Mountain region.
‘Soon’ World Premiere
Our short film ‘Soon’ playing at Extremely Shorts Film Festival, a program of the Aurora Picture Show, on May 20 & 21, and with a virtual premiere May 27-29.
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Teaching Award
I’ve been teaching at Colorado State University for over 7 years and I’m so honored to be receiving this award.
The 14’er Award: This award recognized innovative achievements demonstrating unique vision, creativity and grit.
Soon
My first film for this year is titled Soon.
I was thinking about Super 8mm film and my own childhood and all these home movies my father shot and then transferred to a variety of video tapes and systems, and how those moving images mutate and glitch into its own form. The transformation is part of it, the memory, the pain and the history manifesting visually.
I was also thinking about living through war and how trauma is not something you have to suffer through alone, other people who have gone through difficult times can connect to this.
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