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Featuring: Aykan Safoğlu, Simone Bitton, Elias Sanbar, Richard Dindo and Gelare Khoshgozaran
I Am From Here, I Am From There: Writers in Exile presents films that blend fiction and documentary practices in their profiles of writers living in exile. From Mahmoud Darwish to Jean Genet, the writers in these films are either onscreen presences or spectral conduits for reflecting on the heterogenous aspects of diasporic identity. Spanning from Lebanon to Los Angeles, the program generates several connective threads that transcend time and space, complicating rigid notions of national identity and venerating the potency of the written word as instrumental to a dialectic that’s fundamentally rooted in affirming human dignity.
I Am From Here, I Am From There: Writers in Exile is curated by Nick Kouhi and is co-presented by ArteEast and DCTV's Firehouse Cinema. This program is part of the legacy program Unpacking the ArteArchive, which preserves and presents over 20 years of film and video programming by ArteEast. A selection of the program will be presented in-person at DCTV's Firehouse Cinema, on July 29th starting 6:30 pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion between poet and scholar Sinan Antoon, and the curator Nick Kouhi. The full I Am From Here, I Am From There: Writers in Exile program will be available online on artearchive.org from July 19 - 30, 2025.
Mounia, a young woman, sets off in the footsteps of Jean Genet, first to Chatila, where she meets survivors of the massacre, then to Amman and the banks of the Jordan, where he shared the life of the Feddayine. Throughout her journey, Mounia reads “Un captif amoureux” and, as Genet did when he wrote it, she listens incessantly to Mozart's Requiem.
- Year1999
- Runtime98 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryFrance
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorRichard Dindo
- ScreenwriterRichard Dindo
- ProducerLea Produktion - Robert Boner
- Co-ProducerLes Films d'Ici - Richard Copans
- FilmmakerRichard Dindo
- EditorRichard Dindo
Featuring: Aykan Safoğlu, Simone Bitton, Elias Sanbar, Richard Dindo and Gelare Khoshgozaran
I Am From Here, I Am From There: Writers in Exile presents films that blend fiction and documentary practices in their profiles of writers living in exile. From Mahmoud Darwish to Jean Genet, the writers in these films are either onscreen presences or spectral conduits for reflecting on the heterogenous aspects of diasporic identity. Spanning from Lebanon to Los Angeles, the program generates several connective threads that transcend time and space, complicating rigid notions of national identity and venerating the potency of the written word as instrumental to a dialectic that’s fundamentally rooted in affirming human dignity.
I Am From Here, I Am From There: Writers in Exile is curated by Nick Kouhi and is co-presented by ArteEast and DCTV's Firehouse Cinema. This program is part of the legacy program Unpacking the ArteArchive, which preserves and presents over 20 years of film and video programming by ArteEast. A selection of the program will be presented in-person at DCTV's Firehouse Cinema, on July 29th starting 6:30 pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion between poet and scholar Sinan Antoon, and the curator Nick Kouhi. The full I Am From Here, I Am From There: Writers in Exile program will be available online on artearchive.org from July 19 - 30, 2025.
Mounia, a young woman, sets off in the footsteps of Jean Genet, first to Chatila, where she meets survivors of the massacre, then to Amman and the banks of the Jordan, where he shared the life of the Feddayine. Throughout her journey, Mounia reads “Un captif amoureux” and, as Genet did when he wrote it, she listens incessantly to Mozart's Requiem.
- Year1999
- Runtime98 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryFrance
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorRichard Dindo
- ScreenwriterRichard Dindo
- ProducerLea Produktion - Robert Boner
- Co-ProducerLes Films d'Ici - Richard Copans
- FilmmakerRichard Dindo
- EditorRichard Dindo