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Mizna Film Series: Feminist Visions, May 2024

Trylon Cinema
2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis
05/22/2024
7pm

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In 2024, the quarterly Mizna Film Series (MFS) returns to the Trylon Cinema with a program entitled Feminist Visions. For this series, we focus on Arab/SWANA women who participated in creating and capturing images from the 1970s–90s–– documenting uprisings and revolutionary tactics as well as presenting stories that challenge notions of gender and sexuality in narrative form. Beginning with Heiny Srour’s stunning depiction of a women-led uprising in Oman and two short films on Palestinian liberation by Jocelyne Saab, this year’s lineup draws from the diverse history of women filmmakers, from countries and regions across Southwest Asia and North Africa.

The May program of Mizna Film Series: Feminist Visions presents a retrospective of Atteyat El-Abnoudy’s work. Often considered Egypt’s pioneer documentary filmmaker and “filmmaker of the poor,” El-Abnoudy’s oeuvre maps the intersections of class, labor, and gender in Egypt, largely through the perspectives of women. With training in law, journalism, and filmmaking, El-Abnoudy was active as a documentary filmmaker from the 1970s through the early 2000s. El-Abnoudy’s films offer an intimate glimpse into the lives of working-class Egyptians through politically engaged and socially preoccupied documentary form. Giving a voice to women outside of Egypt’s metropolitan centers, El-Abnoudy enables her film subjects to return the camera’s gaze and narrate their stories in their own words.

Featuring Abnoudy’s films HORSE OF MUD (1971), SAD SONG OF TOUHA (1972), THE SANDWICH (1975), RAWYA (1995), PERMISSIBLE DREAMS (1982).

What: Atteyat El-Abnoudy Retrospective
When: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 7pm
Where: Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St, Minneapolis

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