This summer’s series presents a retrospective of the collaborative film projects of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige.Often blending history and fantasy, Hadjithomas and Joreige’s work captures the mood and contradictions of Lebanon in the post-war moment, and both their narrative and documentary work challenge the relationship between fact and fantasy and the writing of history. They use film to untangle representation from its referent, and their work engages the construction of memory from fragments.
In June, July, and August, Mizna will screen a curated selection of Hadjithomas and Joreige’s films, culminating in September with a filmmaker visit and discussion of their latest narrative feature Memory Box, which will open the sixteenth Twin Cities Arab Film Festival at the Walker Art Center.
This program is sponsored by The Senior Linkage Line.
A copy of Hadjithomas and Joreige’s first feature film disappeared in Yemen, on the day of the tenth anniversary of the reunification of North and South. A year later, they are in Yemen, following the track of the lost film. An inquiry that takes them from Sana'a to Aden, a personal quest centring on the image and on their status as filmmakers in this part of the world.
- Year2003
- Runtime42 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryLebanon, Yemen
- DirectorJoana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
This summer’s series presents a retrospective of the collaborative film projects of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige.Often blending history and fantasy, Hadjithomas and Joreige’s work captures the mood and contradictions of Lebanon in the post-war moment, and both their narrative and documentary work challenge the relationship between fact and fantasy and the writing of history. They use film to untangle representation from its referent, and their work engages the construction of memory from fragments.
In June, July, and August, Mizna will screen a curated selection of Hadjithomas and Joreige’s films, culminating in September with a filmmaker visit and discussion of their latest narrative feature Memory Box, which will open the sixteenth Twin Cities Arab Film Festival at the Walker Art Center.
This program is sponsored by The Senior Linkage Line.
A copy of Hadjithomas and Joreige’s first feature film disappeared in Yemen, on the day of the tenth anniversary of the reunification of North and South. A year later, they are in Yemen, following the track of the lost film. An inquiry that takes them from Sana'a to Aden, a personal quest centring on the image and on their status as filmmakers in this part of the world.
- Year2003
- Runtime42 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryLebanon, Yemen
- DirectorJoana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige