I've Heard Stories
I've Heard Stories
A Film Program curated by Azar Mahmoudian
Wednesday May 28, 2014
7 9pm
City of Toronto Archives,
255 Spadina Rd., Toronto ON
FREE and open to the public
Presented by the Blackwood Gallery in partnership with the City of Toronto Archives and SAVAC South Asian Visual Arts Centre in conjunction with the exhibition, Incident Light, curated by Leila Pourtavaf and on view at the Blackwood Gallery from May 25 July 27, 2014.
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CURATORIAL STATEMENT
Taking its title from the lead film by Marwa Arsanios, Ive Heard Stories is a film program exploring the intersection of art and documentary practices. The selected works reveal a variety of narratives on location, landscape, and territory built on archival materials as well as fictional anecdotes, bringing together conflictual statements about spaces in transition. The films reenact events, reproduce stories, or play narratives against images to create a spatial disorientation. Collectively, they point to the ways in which archives perpetually mediate the relationship between personal and historical modes of knowing.
- Azar Mahmoudian
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I've Heard Stories 1 by Marwa Arsanios Lebanon, 2008
Swede Home by Shirin Sabahi Iran/Sweden, 1966/1973/1975/2009
Sans Titre Untitled by Neil Beloufa Algeria/France, 2010
Everywhere Was the Same by Basma Al Sharif United States, 2007
Why Colonel Bunny Was Killed by Miranda Pennell UK, 2010
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For the film screening brochure, please visit http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/Web20Images/2014/Ive20Heard20Stories/Screening.Brochure.FINAL.pdf
Azar Mahmoudian born 1981, lives in Tehran is an independent curator and researcher. She received her MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2009. Her research focuses on issues of archival and historical modes of cultural representations. She has curated exhibitions and screenings for the Cultuurcentrum, Bruges; Contemporary Art Brussels; and School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She collaborates with Tehran-based project spaces, and was a 2014 Fellow of Global Art Forum 8, Dubai.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I've Heard Stories is presented by the Blackwood Gallery in partnership with the City of Toronto Archives with community support from SAVAC South Asian Visual Arts Centre. The Blackwood Gallery gratefully acknowledges support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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