May 29, 2021
Q&A with Empty Metal’s Adam Khalil
by Michelle Baroody and Ahmed AbdulMageed
This Q&A, conducted by Mizna Film Programs staff Michelle Baroody and Ahmed AbdulMageed, is presented as part of the Mizna Film Series, a monthly selection which expands our regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, interviews, and discussions exploring revolutionary forms of cinema from the SWANA region and beyond. Q. The interplay of surveillance and intuition comes into a clear focus throughout this film. How do these themes show up in your life and your...
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February 22, 2021
Soleil Ô and a Transnational Third Cinema
Third Cinema filmmakers see film as a weapon with the camera as an “inexhaustible expropriator of image-weapons and the projector, a gun that can shoot 24 frames per second.”7 The act of filming then becomes more than a political act. Third Cinema films do not aim to re-aestheticize traditional cinematic modes, but to rather politicize cinema to the extent where a new cinematic code appropriate to its needs is established.
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