High Dam
High Dam brings together elements from these creative works in two sets of 35mm slides and posters and offers an insight into the politics of the era, the propaganda apparatus of the UAR and the USSR, and the tricks Chahine resorted to when his work did not fit its producers’ vision.
Crew
Director | Ala Younis |
Producer | Ala Younis |
Produced by
Ala Younis
Ala Younis
Ala Younis, born in 1974 in Kuwait, is an artist. Research forms a big part of her practice, as do curating, collaboration, film and book projects. Her works have been shown at major biennials and exhibitions worldwide. In 2013 she curated Kuwait’s first national pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. She is co-founder of the publishing initiative Kayfa ta and member of the Academy of Arts of the World in Cologne.
Filmography
2008 Nefertiti; 12 min. 2009 Six Days; 7 min. 2014 Chapters 1, 2 & 3 ‘from the impossibility of one page being like the other’; with Oraib Toukan, 3 min. 2016 Ex-Soviet Archives; 3 min. 2017 High Dam; video installation, 7 min., Forum Expanded 2018 2019 Drachmas
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019