Tea with Culture

In this episode our guest Ala Younis has a conversation with Hind Mezaina about her latest exhibition "Plan for Feminist Greater Baghdad" at the Art Jameel Project Space in Dubai, which is on until 14th March 2018.

Plan for Feminist Greater Baghdad builds on Younis’s 2015 work, Plan for Greater Baghdad, which looked at monuments, (by) architects, (for) governments, and the short state of empowerment they gained as politics shifted in Iraq. The project anchored itself within the history of a gymnasium in Baghdad that was designed by Le Corbusier and named after Saddam Hussein. Heavily based on archives, found material, and the stories of its male protagonists, the project explored issues relating to the protection of monuments for posterity, and the creation of plans for Baghdad as either an expression of power or as a necessity.

Plan for Feminist Greater Baghdad brings to the fore the significant contributions made by female artists, architects and other influential characters to the development of Baghdad and its modern monuments. It re-articulates archival material to bring about new narratives, seeing beyond the male dominance of the city’s architecture and politics, to reveal the female influence on Baghdad’s history.

http://www.alayounis.com

http://planforgreaterbaghdad.art

https://artjameel.org/event/ala-younis-plan-for-feminist-greater-baghdad/

You can view images of the work on our Instagram page - https://www.instagram.com/p/BgO3wq0BKQV/?taken-by=teawithculture

An interview about Ana Contemporary Arab Cinema, the annual film series at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville in Westchester County, New York since 2012.

We interviewed Lina Matta who is the Curator of Ana contemporary Arab cinema and discussed it’s history and current interaction as well as the state of festivals, series and other film viewing situations.

Lina talked about how she goes about finding films, selecting the films and creating a film series, as well as discussing with us the cinema experience in general.

You can find more about the film festival on their website: www.anaarabcinema.com

as well as additional info on their

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ANAarabcinema/

twitter: @AnaArabCinema

insta: @anaarabcinema

pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/anaarabcinema/

An interview about Ana Contemporary Arab Cinema, the annual film series at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville in Westchester County, New York since 2012.

We interviewed Lina Matta who is the Curator of Ana contemporary Arab cinema and discussed it’s history and current interaction as well as the state of festivals, series and other film viewing situations.

Lina talked about how she goes about finding films, selecting the films and creating a film series, as well as discussing with us the cinema experience in general.

You can find more about the film festival on their website: www.anaarabcinema.com

as well as additional info on their

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ANAarabcinema/

twitter: @AnaArabCinema

insta: @anaarabcinema

pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/anaarabcinema/

Serge Attukwei Clottey talked with Wael Hattar about his art practise, focusing on his more recent works in performance and social interaction, as well as his interest in working on topics of migration and gender. They also discussed the art scene in Ghana with it's community and politics.

The show "The Displaced" at LawrieShabibi is on from 20 January until 3 March 2018, and part of a Gallery Takeover by Gallery 1957 from Accra, Ghana. You can find more information on their web page.

http://www.lawrieshabibi.com/exhibitions/57/overview/

- You can view more images on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/p/BetHKGWBdB7/?taken-by=teawithculture.

All images courtesy Gallery 1957 and the artist

- You can find the link to the Video piece discussed "The Displaced" through this link from a review last year in Sleek of his show at Jane Lombard Gallery in NewYork http://www.sleek-mag.com/2017/01/18/serge-attukwei-clottey/

Serge Attukwei Clottey talked with Wael Hattar about his art practise, focusing on his more recent works in performance and social interaction, as well as his interest in working on topics of migration and gender. They also discussed the art scene in Ghana with it's community and politics.

The show "The Displaced" at LawrieShabibi is on from 20 January until 3 March 2018, and part of a Gallery Takeover by Gallery 1957 from Accra, Ghana. You can find more information on their web page.

http://www.lawrieshabibi.com/exhibitions/57/overview/

- You can view more images on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/p/BetHKGWBdB7/?taken-by=teawithculture.

All images courtesy Gallery 1957 and the artist

- You can find the link to the Video piece discussed "The Displaced" through this link from a review last year in Sleek of his show at Jane Lombard Gallery in NewYork http://www.sleek-mag.com/2017/01/18/serge-attukwei-clottey/

In this episode we talk to Dana Sadek, one of the co-founders of Reel Palestine Film Festival, launched in 2015 and takes place across the UAE.

Reel Palestine aims to "allow viewers to cinematically travel to Palestine, sans restrictions" by screening films sharing Palestinian culture and the tenacity of its people, and to learn about stories that slip under the radar,

We discuss the origins of the festival and its growth over the past few years.

The 2018 edition takes place between 19 and 27 January in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi. Visit http://www.reelpalestine.org for more details.

Follow Reel Palestine on:

https://www.facebook.com/reelpalestine

https://www.instagram.com/reelpalestine/

In this episode we talk to Dana Sadek, one of the co-founders of Reel Palestine Film Festival, launched in 2015 and takes place across the UAE.

Reel Palestine aims to "allow viewers to cinematically travel to Palestine, sans restrictions" by screening films sharing Palestinian culture and the tenacity of its people, and to learn about stories that slip under the radar,

We discuss the origins of the festival and its growth over the past few years.

The 2018 edition takes place between 19 and 27 January in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi. Visit http://www.reelpalestine.org for more details.

Follow Reel Palestine on:

https://www.facebook.com/reelpalestine

https://www.instagram.com/reelpalestine/

We speak to Fadi Baki aka The Fdz about his film Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow which recently screened at Dubai International Film Festival 2017. We discuss what inspired him, the making of the film and sci-fi in the Arab world.

Fadi (The Fdz) Baki is a filmmaker, comicbook writer and animator. He is the co-founder of Samandal (http://www.samandalcomics.org), one of the Middle East’s premier comic magazines, and a co-founder of Beirut Animated (https://www.facebook.com/BeirutAnimated/), the Lebanese animation film festival run by Metropolis Cinema (http://www.metropoliscinema.net).

About the film Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow:

A young filmmaker investigates the legend of ‘Manivelle’, an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut. After being coaxed back into the limelight, the people who knew him come forward to speak out and the myth that ‘Manivelle’ has constructed around himself starts to unravel. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-6q7gigtss

You can follow Fadi on Twitter https://twitter.com/thefdz

We speak to Fadi Baki aka The Fdz about his film Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow which recently screened at Dubai International Film Festival 2017. We discuss what inspired him, the making of the film and sci-fi in the Arab world.

Fadi (The Fdz) Baki is a filmmaker, comicbook writer and animator. He is the co-founder of Samandal (http://www.samandalcomics.org), one of the Middle East’s premier comic magazines, and a co-founder of Beirut Animated (https://www.facebook.com/BeirutAnimated/), the Lebanese animation film festival run by Metropolis Cinema (http://www.metropoliscinema.net).

About the film Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow:

A young filmmaker investigates the legend of ‘Manivelle’, an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut. After being coaxed back into the limelight, the people who knew him come forward to speak out and the myth that ‘Manivelle’ has constructed around himself starts to unravel. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-6q7gigtss

You can follow Fadi on Twitter https://twitter.com/thefdz

In our second part about Dubai International Film Festival 2017, we are joined by Faisal Al Jadir, film journalist from Empire Arabia.

We discuss the following films (and included at which we minute we start each discussion):

Arab films

- Wajib - 1:36

- Cactus Flower - 4:33

- Kiss me Not - 6:50

- Beauty and the Dogs - 8:53

- Until the End of Time - 10:52

- Sharp Tools - 12:05

Documentaries

- Panoptic - 15:20

- Man Behind the Microphone - 16:45

Short Films and the quality of short films in the Arab region 17:55

- The Remaining Time

- The Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow

- A Drowning Man

- Bonboné

- Into Reverse

Cinema of the World

- The Square - 29:41

- A Gentle Creature - 31:59

- The Seen and Unseen 34:17

- The Death of Stalin - 36:12

- You Were Never Really Here - 38:40

- The Disaster Artist - 41:25

- Three billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri - 45:51

- I, Tonya - 49:16

You can follow Faisal Al Jadir on Twiiter https://twitter.com/faisalaljadir and Emipre Arabia on https://twitter.com/empirearabia and on the website https://empire-arabia.com