[spectre] Revolutionary Archives: Tactical Screenings from Tahrir, Amsterdam Friday September 30, 20.30 hrs.

[Eric Kluitenberg]

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Revolutionary Archives: Tactical Screenings from Tahrir

Screening & talk with Omar Robert Hamilton: Friday September 30, De Balie, Amsterdam, 20.30 hrs

In the midst of the Egyptian uprising Tahrir Cinema was started on July 14th by a group of film makers and artists, organising open air public screenings on Tahrir Square, of films that had something to do  with 'the Revolution'. Curation of the films was largely open source. The organisers asked people on the square for their footage, or what they wanted to see up on the screen - "a screen to serve the square".

Out of this frenzy of media-activity Mosireen emerged, a new independent media centre in Cairo. During the protests Mosireen supported people on Tahrir Square to edit their materials, created DVDs with raw footage and clips, and set up an archive of the Revolution.

This special screening program organised in the frame of "Media Squares" program at De Balie will present a selection of videos and films from Tahrir Cinema in collaboration with Mosireen, Cairo. The screening will be hosted and narrated by Omar Robert Hamilton, one of the initiators of Tahrir Cinema, and Nat Muller, independent curator based in The Netherlands. 

Links: 
Tahrir Cinema:
www.cinerevolutionnow.com/2011/07/tahrir-cinema.html
Omar Robert Hamilton:
www.orhamilton.com/bio.html
Mosireen:
http://mosireen.org

This program is presented in the frame of the international seminar "Media Squares - On the new forms of social protest and their media"
See:  www.tacticalmediafiles.net/article.jsp?objectnumber=54334

Location:
De Balie
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam
Program starts: 20.30 hrs.
Admission: 5 euro (no reductions)
Tickets:
http://debalie.activetickets.com/ProgrammaDetail.aspx?id=597