Sjeti se slobode: Robin Vanbesien, Vida Guzmić i Maissa Maatouk

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Film Robina Vanbesiena hold on to her (2024) prati življenu društvenu infrastrukturu skrbi, solidarnosti i borbe koja se tiče relativno nedavnog slučaja policijskog i državnog nasilja u kontekstu granične kontrole migracija u Belgiji. Dvogodišnju Mawdu Shawri, kćer Phrasta i Shamden i sestru Hame, 2018. ustrijelio je i ubio belgijski policajac tijekom automobilske potjere na glavnoj autocesti. Preko 40 ljudi, kako aktivista bez dokumenata tako i onih s dokumentima su se 2023. okupili ispred kamere na La Voix des sans papiers u Briselu kako bi uprizorili kolektivno saslušanje temeljeno na dokumentima iz Mawdinog sudskog slučaja i reakcijama na njega. Zajedno proizvode kontra-forenzičke dokaze ovog smrtonosnog prelaska Kanala.

Po prvi put u Zagrebu prikazat ćemo film Detours Vide Guzmić sniman u Libanonu te film Now, if you look at the sky njezine kolegice i libanonske umjetnice Maisse Maatouk. Nakon filma održat ćemo razgovor s Vidom Guzmić.

Detours Vide Guzmić eksperimentalni je dokumentarac sniman u Libanonu od 2019. do 2021. Montirani materijal uglavnom je sniman u Bejrutu prije i nakon eksplozije u bejrutskoj luci 4. kolovoza te tijekom masovnih prosvjeda koji su izbili 7. listopada 2019. Rad na „periferalan“ način dokumentira jedan trenutak u turbulentnoj povijesti Libanona i iskustvo dezorijentacije u njoj kao i trenutak kolektivnog susreta, revolucije vođene mladošću i solidarnošću.

Usprkos njegovom izostanku, Now, if you look at the sky (2021.) Maisse Maatouk fokusiran je na sliku neba iznad Bejruta. Između zvuka ratnih zrakoplova dok prelijeću nebom i lede krv u žilama i osjećaja prisustva dok pušta golubove da lete, ovaj video kroz geste uzgajivača golubova pokušava objasniti sliku neba kojeg nema, koje su okupirali izraelski avioni.

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Robin Vanbesien’s film hold on to her (2024) traces a lived social infrastructure of care, solidarity and struggle that addresses a recent case of police and state violence in the context of migration border control in Belgium. In 2018, two year-old Mawda Shawri, daughter of Phrast and Shamden and sister to Hama, was shot dead by a Belgian police officer during a car chase on a central highway. In 2023, over 40 people, both undocumented and documented resident activists, assembled before the camera at La Voix des sans papiers in Brussels to stage a collective hearing of documents from and reactions to Mawda’s case. Together they produce the counter-forensic evidence of this deadly Channel crossing.

For the first time in Zagreb, we will screen Vida Guzmić´s film Detours, shot in Lebanon, as well as Now, if you look at the sky, made by her colleague a Lebanese artis Maissa Maatouk. After the screenings, we will have a conversation with Vida Guzmić.

Detours by Vida Guzmić is an experimental documentary shot in Lebanon from 2019 to 2021. The edited footage is mostly recorded in Beirut, pre and post the 4th of August explosion in the Port of Beirut, and during the mass protests that erupted on the 7th of October 2019. The work documents, in a ‘peripheral’ way, a moment of Lebanon’s turbulent history and the experience of disorientation within it, as well as a moment of collective encounter, a revolution led by youth and solidarity.

Despite its absence, Now, if you look at the sky (2021.) by Maissa Maatouk has the focus on the image of the sky above Beirut. Between the freezing effect of the sound of warplanes crossing the sky, and the feeling of being present while flying pigeons, this video attempts to account for the missing image of the sky, which is occupied by Israeli planes through the gestures of the pigeon fancier.

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The program is supported by:
Office for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb
Kultura Nova Foundation
Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC)