[spectre] salloum vbc screening

[JSalloum@aol.com]

(apologies for cross posting)


Canadian premiere
of a new videotape by Jayce Salloum:
'everything and nothing'

An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a=
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figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese National=20
Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in=20
El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had been=20
detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation.


One screening only
as part of the Signal & Noise Festival
@ Video In
Friday, March 22, 9:30pm
followed by a Q&A

Video In
1965 Main Street, Vancouver:
single screening $5

for more info: (604)872-8337

exhibit@telus.net


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Full videotape description:
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everything and nothing
part 1 from the continuous tape, =E2=80=98untitled=E2=80=99
Jayce Salloum, 40:40, orig format MiniDV, France/Canada, 2001

An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a=
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figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara* ex-Lebanese National=20
Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in=20
El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had been=20
detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation. Revising notions of resistance,=
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discussing the recounting to death of her account, the nature of survival,=20
will, separation, distance and closeness, the overexposed image and body of=20=
a=20
surviving martyr speaks quietly and directly into the camera juxtaposed=20
against her self and image, not speaking of the torture but of the distance=20
between the subject and the loss, of what is left behind and what remains.

*Soha Bechara is a heroine in Lebanon, pictures of her are seen in many=20
houses in the South and posters of her were seen all around downtown Beirut=20
when I was working there in the early 90=E2=80=99s.  She was captured for tr=
ying to=20
assassinate the general of the SLA (Israel's proxy army), Antoine Lahad. Thi=
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video material that I recorded of the time spent with her is not precious,=20
just time, and a conversation, and intense intimacy at a close and=20
unbreachable distance.
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Screenings to date include; MoneyNations2, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna;=20
Ayam Bayrout al Cinemaiya, Beirut; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Arab Screen=20
Independent Film Festival, Doha, Qatar; Artists Television Access/Arab Film=20
Festival, San Francisco; Arab & Iranian Film Festival, NYC; Argos Film &=20
Video Festival, Brussels; The World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam; The=20
Museum of Civilization, Hull, Qu=C3=A9bec; Biennale de l=E2=80=99image en Mo=
uvement=20
(Biennial of Moving Images), Geneva; and upcoming at the Pacific Film A
rchives, Berkeley, and YYZ, Toronto.