Shot, Counter-shot
Encounters between art and philosophy
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Date
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Auditorium 2 Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationThe film is in Arabic, French and German, with subtitles in Portuguese and English.
The conversation will happen in English, with simultaneous interpretation to Portuguese.
The film recovers images of Palestinian resistance filmed by Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin in 1972, during their time as part of the Dziga Vertov Group. Based on these sequences and scenes later shot in Paris, the film reflects on the relationship between image, sound and text, when they operate within the cinematographic apparatus as a means of representing reality. By meticulously analysing the Dziga Vertov Group’s methodological approach to making political films, Godard and Miéville engage in a political examination of the preconditions and relationships involved in producing images. Using disjunctive editing and a didactic voice-over, they call into question not only the images of the Parisian working class, but also those filmed in Palestine.
Ghalya Saadawi, whose areas of research include aesthetics and politics, Lebanese art and documentary, and Marwa Arsanios, who has used film in her artistic practice to reflect on movements and struggles, come together for a conversation about the issues raised by the film. The conversation will be moderated by Stefanie Baumann, a researcher at IFILNOVA’s CineLab.
Speakers
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Ghalya Saadawi
Ghalya Saadawi (b. Beirut, Lebanon) is a writer and a senior lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her teaching and research interests span critical theory, critical approaches to human rights, witnessing and testimony, law and psychoanalysis, aesthetics and politics, Lebanese art and documentary, among other areas. Between 2015-2017 she was Resident Professor of the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program (Beirut), and has been theory tutor at the Dutch Art Institute since 2018. Saadawi is also a member of Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR). Some of her writing has appeared in magazines and journals such as Bidoun, frieze, Bidayat, the derivative, Third Text, ArtMargins, Journal of Visual Culture, PhiloSOPHIA, among other publications. Her forthcoming book Between October and November (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025) is an essay on loss and the persistence of forms under an extended capitalist modernity.
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Marwa Arsanios
Marwa Arsanios (b. Beirut, Lebanon) works as a visual artist, using various forms, strategies and devices, including film, as a space for connecting struggles in the way images refer to each other. Her solo exhibitions include shows at: Kunsthalle Bratislava (2023); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2021); Beirut Art Center (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2016); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015); and Art in General, New York (2015). Group exhibitions in which her work was included: documenta 15 (2022); Biennale of Sydney film programme (2022); Berlin Biennale (2020); SFMOMA, San Francisco (2019); Sharjah Biennial (2019); Gwangju Biennale (2018); Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2016); New Museum, New York (2014); Venice Biennale (2013); and Istanbul Biennial (2011).
Programme
18:30 / Welcome
18:35 / Introduction
18:45 / Screening of «Here and Elsewhere», by Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard (53')
19:40 / Discussion
20:40 / Q&A
21:10 / Closing
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