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WHAT EXISTED YESTERDAY MIGHT DISAPPEAR TOMORROW

Curated by Hind Mezaina


The past haunts the present in this film program about photography and cinema, featuring four short films by Hisham Bizri, Akram Zaatari, Meyar Al Roumi, and Joana Hadjithomas/Khalil Joriege. These films delve into a distant or recent past and their consequences today on what was and what could have been.


WHAT EXISTED YESTERDAY MIGHT DISAPPEAR TOMORROW is co-presented by ArteEast and Tribe. This screening is part of the legacy program Unpacking the ArteArchive, which preserves and presents over 17 years of film and video programming by ArteEast. In addition to the online screening on artearchive.org from October 13-18, the program will be screened in-person at Alliance Française in Dubai on October 12, with an introduction and post screening discussion with curator Hind Mezaina and Nezar Andary, professor of cinema and literature, curator of film and book festivals.

Her + Him VAN LEO by Akram Zaatari


In 1998, Zaatari interviewed Egyptian photographer Van Leo in Cairo. In 2001 he made the video Her + Him VAN LEO and based it on the story of a woman who once entered Studio Van Leo and asked the artist to take pictures of her naked. At the time, Zaatari had access to a few of the woman's twelve pictures. In 2010 Zaatari came across the entire series showing "Nadia" undressing in twelve poses and expanded the original work into this HD remastered version.


This documentary utilizes traditional portrait photography and video in a dialogue between two media: crafted black and white print, and the electronically colored and manipulated screen. This dialog comments on the transformations in art practices and terminologies, and evokes some of the social/urban/political transformations that took place in Egypt over 50 years of its recent history.



Akram Zaatari is an artist who lives and works in Beirut. He has been exploring Lebanon's postwar condition through collecting testimonies and various documents, notably on the mediation of territorial conflicts and wars through television, and the logic of Resistance in the context of the current geographical division of the Middle East.


Co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), he based his recent work on collecting, studying, and archiving a particular collection on the Middle East, notably studying the work of Lebanese photographer Hashem el Madani (1928-2017) as a register of social relationships and of photographic practices.

  • Year
    2012
  • Runtime
    32 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Lebanon
  • Director
    Akram Zaatari