RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has the largest national presence in the Cinema Al-Khaleej (Gulf Cinema) program at this year’s Doha Film Festival, with three Saudi titles among the seven selected for the event running Nov. 19-27. The rest of the lineup comes from Oman, Kuwait, the UAE and Bahrain. The program showcases films that reflect the Gulf’s cultural heritage and its contemporary realities. Some follow characters who defy prevailing social expectations, while others draw on folklore, memory and tra
Kentridge’s cine-musical creation, made to accompany Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, is a marvel of puppetry, dance and humour, exploring humanity, grief and idealism
The Baku international arts festival in Azerbaijan is showcasing an amazing cine-musical creation, perhaps the most amazing animation I have ever seen. Oh to Believe in Another World is an hour-long collage animation with live-action choreography by the 71-year-old South African artist and film-maker William Kentridge. It is shown with the live orchestral accompaniment of Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, and this event is partly in honour of the 120th anniversary of Shostakovich’s birth this year, and partly to honour Shostakovich’s reportedly unrequited love (and lifelong friendship) for his student, Azerbaijani pianist and composer Elmira Nazirova.
The 10th symphony was inspired by Stalin and premiered shortly after his death, so it seems probable that Shostakovich had been at work on it for some time before this, long enough beforehand for at least some of the composition to have been conceived without any sense of Stalin’s death. Could part of it perhaps have been originally intended as an obediently dramatic tribute to Stalin? Yet the music arguably combines fear, awe, revulsion, and a hysterical reaction to the mad energy of Stalin’s genocidal tyranny, a darkly ambiguous respect for the great dictator whose victory in 1945 was a mainstay of the postwar dispensation; perhaps there is also a feeling in the music’s swirl that a great and terrible era has passed away, and with it a kind of grief at all that had been sacrificed to it.
RIYADH: The fifth edition of the European Film Festival in Riyadh will feature 16 films from 16 European countries, the Delegation of the European Union to Saudi Arabia has announced. The event is being held in collaboration with the embassies of its member states and with the support of the Film Commission, reported the Saudi Press Agency. The festival will begin on Nov. 2, with public screenings running from Nov. 3-10. Building on the success of previous years, the program includes a diverse s
Ali Ghalem, Roschdy Zem, Jamel Debbouze, Hafsia Herzi… Le cinéma français et l’immigration maghrébine sont intimement et intensément entrelacés. Malgré des films bascule comme La Haine ou Indigènes qui ont bouleversé et enrichi le 7e art français, cette histoire reste largement méconnue. Un héritage et une influence pour lesquels des générations d’immigrés se sont battus. Entretien avec Clémentine Deroudille, commissaire de l’exposition « Une histoire du cinéma français. Héritages maghrébins » qui ouvre ce 30 octobre au Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration à Paris.
From Picasso to Andy Warhol, a surprising number of artists have portrayed the German breed. But the dachshund has also at times been co-opted as a political symbol.
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