Multimedia Art Project 'My Nineties'

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Oct 28, 2013 Egypt
[My Nineties highlighted the public`s engagement with Egyptian state TV back in the 1990s. Image courtesy of Medrar TV.] [My Nineties highlighted the public`s engagement with Egyptian state TV back in the 1990s. Image courtesy of Medrar TV.]

Multimedia Art Project "My Nineties"

By : Medrar TV مدرار تي في

My Nineties is an art project addressing Egypt`s mediascape during the 1990s by tapping into people`s collective memory. Egyptian artist Mohamed Allam collected more than 4,000 VHS tapes from different scrap stores, random individuals, and sellers in Cairo`s Friday market. He was then able to locate approximately 200 tapes with different recordings of TV materials from the 1990s. The existence of this material is not a result of meticulous digital lab work but a product of a popular passion for recording the TV programs and soap operas that flooded Egyptians` TV screens in the 1990s. The owners of these collections of recordings were not concerned with copyrighting their materials, nor did they expect that it would grow into an open archive of Egyptian collective memory.

My Nineties includes an exhibition of video installations that highlight aspects of the archive (some screened raw and others remixed using the same analogue techniques used in the 1990s), as well as a live audiovisual performance, which took place on the opening night using the found footage as a source material and was performed by Allam with musician Rami Abadir. It also includes a documentary by Emad Maher featuring the icons of the 1990s media industry and an art book by journalist Hassan al-Helougy, which highlights newspaper and magazine articles, as well as scholarly texts discussing the role of television in this decade.

 

                 [This video is produced by Medrar TV and is featured as part of a partnership with Jadaliyya Culture.]

 

 

 

 

 
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Apr 30, 2012 Lebanon
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Crossroads in Iranian Cinema: Interview with Hamid Naficy

Hamid Naficy of Northwestern University is a leading authority of Iranian cinema His most recent four-volume series, A Social History of Iranian Cinema. Covers the Iranian cinema from late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first cinema. Hamid Naficy has published extensively about theories of exile and displacement, exilic and diaspora cinema and media, and Iranian and Third World cinemas. His many publications include such well-known titles as An Accented Cinema, The Making of Exile Cultures, Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged, Iran Media Index, and the AFI anthology, Home, Exile, Homeland. Professor Naficy helped to launch ongoing annual Iranian film festivals in Los Angeles and Houston.

Professor Naficy spoke with Iranian American film scholar, Hossein Khosrowjah about his latest work and the state of Iranian cinema today.

A Social History of Iranian Cinema
Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897–1941
Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978
Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984
Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010