Ricochet complements the themes of Among the Moderns, the exhibition
at Stills which runs from 11 November 2006 until 28 January
2007. By teaming up with the Cinémathèque
de Tanger in Morocco our gallery has been transformed into
a trans-Arab video library.
Visitors to Stills can wind their way through our mini cinema
spaces and encounter video and film work produced throughout
the diverse cultural, political and social space of the Arab
world; a world that now spans from Beirut to Paris to Los
Angeles and back again.
The programme is loosely based around three sections - Coasts
and Nomadism; Territory: Urban Landscape and Peripheries;
and Here and Elsewhere.
The featured artists and filmmakers have created compelling
alternative histories which criss-cross the tense and shifting
borderlands between documentation and subjectivity, between
national tradition and globalization. Their work variously
explores whether the many 20th-century charts labelled ‘Modernity’ were
mapping the real world, or inventing a new one.
Artists & Filmmakers include Nassim Amaouche, Ali Cherri,
Myrna Maakaron, Katia Kameli, Hicham Falah and Mohamed Chrif
Tribak, Abu Ali, Joude Gorani, Tala Hadid, Wael Nourredine,
Dalila Ennadre, Brahim Fritah, Mounir Fatmi, Carole Contant,
Hakim Bellabes and Maria Karim, Nilu Izadi
Among the Moderns has been curated by artists Bouchra Khalili
and Yto Barrada.
Saturday 11 November 2006 – Sunday
28 January 2007
Open Daily 11am – 6pm FREE
23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BP 0131 622 6200
www.stills.org
About the Cinémathèque
de Tanger, Morocco
In Autumn 2006, the Cinémathèque de Tanger
opens in its permanent home, the Rif Cinema. Located on the
historic Grand Socco plaza and standing at the auspicious
intersection of the old city (the medina) and the new, this
historic building is now being transformed into Morocco’s
leading independent movie house for independent cinema and
repertory programming.
www.cinemathequedetanger.com
A touring exhibition in collaboration with the Cinémathèque
de Tanger, Morocco and the Photographer’s Gallery,
London. Part of the Festival of Muslim Cultures
