Moving Images from the Middle East/Arab World After Empire s Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere opens with the first chapter titled Postcards from Afar, streaming November 24–December 7, 2021, and featuring works by Basma Alsharif, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Hassan Khan, Wael Noureddine, and Jocelyne Saab. Yael, Fouad Elkoury, Harun Farocki, Shadi Habib Allah, Khadijeh Habashneh, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Helene Kazan, Hassan Khan, Dalia Al Kury, Wael Noureddine, The Otolith Group, Jocelyne Saab, Urok Shirhan, Mohanad Yaqubi, Akram Zaatari With films by Nora Adwan, Reem Ali, Basma Alsharif, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Selma Baccar, b.h. The program streams on e-flux Video & Film in five thematic group screenings, each two weeks long and will accompanied by two live discussions (discussion dates and speakers to be announced). Sinan Antoon's foreword, written expressly for this edition, sets Darwish's work in the context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years.E-flux Video & Film is very pleased to announce Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere: Moving Images from the Middle East/Arab World After Empires, an online film program curated by Irmgard Emmelhainz. Ibrahim Muhawi's translation beautifully renders Darwish's testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems.
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