http://www.digitales-online.org/2002/

Forum - Stereotypes, analysis, image deconstruction - Tamara Sawaya

1. General presentation of the FAI
Project, objectives and financing
2. Management of the photographic files of the FAI
Conservation of photographic files: the chain of treatment of the photograph
Digitalisation of photography: the digital database as a tool of safeguarding and of promotion of the photographic base.
Show CD ROM with photographs of the FAI
3. Projects of the FAI
Short outline of the exhibitions and publications of the FAI
Projection of 2 films produced by the FAI from its photograph files.


THE 2 PROPOSED FILMS:

Quiet days in Palestine
Author: Fouad Elkoury (member of the FAI)
Director: Sylvain Roumette
Productions: ARTE/FAI 1998
Lasted: 13min
Language: French
VHS Pal
Synopsis
From Palestine, the violence, uprooting and suffering images are known. This 13mn film, in the form of a title-bench, tells another history: that of an open and cosmopolitan, carefree and happy company. Through the images found by the Arab Foundation for the Image, Fouad Elkoury and sylvain Roumette deliver a new glance on Palestine of before 48.
The memories of five pilot (women) of the time, in voices off, form the essence of the band its. They are evoked on the simple method of "I remember" and superimpose themselves on the N&B photographs to unroll an ordinary life section, the school, the house and the festivals until the departure in 48.

Van Leo Her+Him
Video carried out by Akram Zaatari (member of the FAI)
Production: FAI 2001
Duration: 32 min
Language: Arab, French, English – subtitling English
VHS Pal
Synopsis (English)
Van Leo Her+Him
Vidéo réalisée par Akram Zaatari (member de la FAI)
Production : FAI 2001
Durée : 32 min
Langue : Arabe, français, anglais – sous-titrage anglais
VHS Pal
Synopsis (anglais)
A nude portrait of a grandmother is a pretext to visit the Armenian/Egyptian photographer Van Leo. It is a work that juxtaposes photography and video, black and white vs. color to comment on transformations that took place in Egypt over 50 years of its recent history.

Tamara Sawaya
Tam@fai.org.lb
Fondation arabe pour l’image
www.fai.org.lb

Cet article a été écrit par Tamara Sawaya {www.fai.org.lb} le 12/01/2004