<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font color="#ff00ff"><a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/naeem-mohaiemen/capsula" target="_blank">In this podcast, Naeem Mohaiemen </a></font></b><font color="#333333">talks about pragmatic politics and failed masculinities, about Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi, and Salvador Allende, about the backstories of "Two Meetings and a Funeral", and about the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. We also talk about the generative aspect of melancholy, behind-the-scenes politics, and the importance of keeping up the search for the things that we still do not know.</font><br></font><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Link: </span><a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/naeem-mohaiemen/capsula" target="_blank">https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/naeem-mohaiemen/capsula</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><h2 style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;margin:0px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(255,51,51);line-height:22px"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:small">With a modus operandi based on wandering and endless searching,<a href="https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/naeem-mohaiemen/capsula" target="_blank"> Naeem Mohaiemen (b. London, 1969) r</a>epeatedly delves into Bangladesh’s history through a detailed examination of its documentary heritage. His films meticulously analyse the way in which historical events are filtered and stored in national audiovisual archives, and reveal that the borders of those archives contain significant geopolitical narratives in a latent state. Mohaiemen describes his research as “following the work down, down, deep into the rabbit hole,” without knowing where it will lead, picking up lost narrative threads that we wouldn’t have imagined we’d find there, which point in an unexpected direction.</span><br></h2><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 1em 1em 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px">In this podcast, Naeem Mohaiemen talks about pragmatic politics and failed masculinities, about Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi, and Salvador Allende, about the backstories of "Two Meetings and a Funeral", and about the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. We also talk about the generative aspect of melancholy, behind-the-scenes politics, and the importance of keeping up the search for the things that we still do not know.<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Timeline</b><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">00:00</b> A great missing object<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">03:06</b> “Two meetings and a funeral”: the Wayback story<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">08:07</b> Archival obsessions and moments of accidental discovery<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">12:55</b> Real politics happens behind the scenes<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">17:58</b> Generational projections<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">31:44</b> Melancholia as a generative mood<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">39:58</b> Pragmatics politics: compromises, endorsments, audiences<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">46:47</b> Gulf Labour<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">52:03</b> Failing / Flailing masculinities<br style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">58:53</b> Building stories together</font></p><p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 1em 1em 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#ff00ff" size="6">E/N/J/O/Y</font></b></p></div></div>
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