Ursula Biemann presents Sahara Chronicle
February 29th, 6:30 pm
Cantor Film Center
36 East 8 Street (between Broadway and University Place), New York
6 train to Astor Place, R train to 8th Street, B/D/V/F/A/C/E to West 4th Street.
Tickets can be purchased online:
http://www.arteeast.org/pages/cinemaeast/series/spring-2008/?section=ext...
or on the night.
Members $5/Students $8/General Public $10
For more information about the CinemaEast 2008 Spring Series, please visit
http://www.arteeast.org/pages/cinemaeast/series/spring-2008/
ArteEast, the Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies and the Kevorkian Center at New York University are pleased to present a new season of films from the Middle East and its diasporas at Cantor Film Center.
A special guest of CinemaEast this season is Swiss video artist Ursula Biemann, who will be presenting her award-winning work Sahara Chronicle, a video collection documenting the present sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe and the interdependence of migrations with international politics of mobility. (2/29/08)
Videos
Desert truck terminal, 13 minutes
Desert Radio Drone, 5.40 minutes
Interview Adawa, 10.20 minutes
Tuareg Border Guides, 3.47 minutes
Iron Ore Train 2.56
Oujda Frontierland 7.10
Synopsis
For the first time in New York, Ursula Biemann presents Sahara Chronicle, a video collection documenting the present sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe and the interdependence of migrations with international politics of mobility. The videos (to include Desert Truck Terminal, Interview Adawa, Tuareg Border Guides, Iron Ore Train and Deportation Prison Laayoune) show the major gates and nodes of the trans-Saharan migration
network in Morocco, Niger, and Mauritania.
Sahara Chronicle is part of The Maghreb Connection, an exhibition and research project directed by Biemann involving activists, scholars, and artists who live in different Mediterranean countries. (
www.geobodies.org).
Filmmaker's Biography
Ursula Biemann is an artist and curator working on migrations, mobility, gender and technology. Her work has been represented in a series of international exhibitions, as well as in several books. She researches at the Institute for Theory of Art and Design HGK Zurich lectures at the CCC program of ESBA Geneva, and teaches seminars and workshops internationally.
