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Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 18:30
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Friday, March 30, 2018 - 21:00
Cast:
Lara Abu Ramadan, Hosam Salem, Khalil Hamra, Walaa Al Ghussein, Ashraf Al Masri
Cinematography:
Oraib Toukan
Editing:
Oraib Toukan
Producer:
Oraib Toukan
Romanian Premiere
When Things Occur is based on Skype conversations with Gaza-based photographers, fixers, and drivers who were behind specific images that were transmitted from screen to screen in the summer of 2014. The film probes the face of mourning and grief – its digital embodiment, transmission, and representation. It asks how the gaze gets channeled within the digital realm, and how empathy travels. Equally, how the documentary signifier – and its abstraction – operate when viewing suffering. What exactly is viewing suffering ‘at a distance’ – and how many meters or kilometers is that? What is the behavior and political economy of the image of war? Who is the ‘local’ in the representation of war? What is the daily routine of those who represent war? (Oraib Toukan)
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Contact:
o.toukan[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Berlin International Film Festival 2017
- Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie Mannheim, Germany 2017
- Bonniers Konsthall Centre for Contemporary Art Stockholm, Sweden 2017
Curatorial comment:
When Things Occur by Oraib Toukan is so compelling due to its update of the urgency to re-engage with the question of the image as a geopolitical issue for the Palestinian cause. Its image-regimes offer a contested terrain as well as a lived reality and politics of the domestic in which nobody will understand how we are living, as Gaza international photojournalist and blogger Lara Abu Ramadan states in her conversation with Oraib Toukan. The 28 minute desktop-video investigates and labours the techno-spatial conditions of image processing. It considers the particular situation of Gaza after the 2014-wars entangled with global infrastructures. Thus it provides an important analysis of a visually exhausted and exploited terrain that has been overproduced by media images for decades, by Human Rights discourses as well as by the field of international contemporary art, the arena where When Things Occur is presented. (Doreen Mende for Vdrome)
When Things Occur by Oraib Toukan is so compelling due to its update of the urgency to re-engage with the question of the image as a geopolitical issue for the Palestinian cause. Its image-regimes offer a contested terrain as well as a lived reality and politics of the domestic in which nobody will understand how we are living, as Gaza international photojournalist and blogger Lara Abu Ramadan states in her conversation with Oraib Toukan. The 28 minute desktop-video investigates and labours the techno-spatial conditions of image processing. It considers the particular situation of Gaza after the 2014-wars entangled with global infrastructures. Thus it provides an important analysis of a visually exhausted and exploited terrain that has been overproduced by media images for decades, by Human Rights discourses as well as by the field of international contemporary art, the arena where When Things Occur is presented. (Doreen Mende for Vdrome)