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Critically acclaimed filmmaker Khalil Joreige will lead an in-depth exploration into the tensions and overlaps between filmmaking and real life, especially in spaces of cultural and political instabilities. Joreige will give a case study presentation about the complexity between document and fact, and fiction and reality, focusing on the film A Perfect Day (2006 Tribeca Film Festival) and related project Aida, Save Me. The session will center around cinematographic language and working with untrained actors, and will also involve participants’ own projects and intersections with the above subjects. Using Joreige’s and his artistic partner Joana Hadjithomas’ careers as a frame, participants will explore their own creative and critical work through examining relationships between images, contexts, lived experiences, and shared concerns.

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WHEN: September 27, 2022 5:30pm–8:30pm
WHERE: FilmNorth

ABOUT THE ARTIST 

Critically acclaimed Lebanese filmmaker and artist Khalil Joreige visits the Twin Cities for Mizna’s 16th Arab Film Festival and this special workshop with Film North. Joreige and collaborator Joana Hadjithomas’s work is rooted in the construction of representations, storytelling, and fabrication of images in contemporary Lebanon. Both their narrative and documentary work challenges the relationship between fact, the imaginary, and the writing of history. Mizna has presented a retrospective of their film work in their summer Mizna Film Series, and will screen their latest film, Memory Box (2021 Berlin International Film Festival), to kick off the upcoming Arab Film Fest on September 28, 2022. Tickets.