December 7 – 8:00 PM
IN PERSON at Ventilator Cinema, Overtoom 301, 1054 HW
A curated collection of 5 Queer Palestinian short films dubbed The Fashion Programme, with (hyper) visibility as a means of self-fashioning and collective expression.
1) Sharif Waked, CHIC POINT (5 mins)
2) Elias Wakeem, HOMECOMING QUEENZ (11 mins)
3) Trashy, ERRORVISION (7 mins)
4) Bashar Murad, ANTENNE and MASKHARA (4 mins each)
5) Hazar Jawabra, BODY TONES (2 mins)
Film program
Chic Point, Sharif Waked, 5 min (2003)
Queerness and checkpoints, geography and desire.
Sharif Waked was born in 1964 in Nazareth. With ferocious humour, Waked engages with the Middle-Eastern political conflict, turning terror into a somber cabaret.
Homecoming Queenz, Elias Wakeem, 11 min
Hebrew, English
This live performance shot by smartphones was taken at Ben Gurion International Airport while on the way back from abroad.
Errorvision, Trashy, 7 min (2021)
Trashy Clothing’s Autumn/Winter ’21 collection titled ‘Errorvision,’ is a satirical play on the ‘artwashing’ of song contests, sports competitions, and beauty pageants such as Eurovision, the Olympics, and Miss Universe.
Trashy Clothing is a ready-to-wear Palestinian fashion label characterized by a mix of satire, kitsch, and wit. Under the co-creative direction of Omar Braika and Shukri Lawrence, their goal is to convey design statements of anti-colonial resistance and joyful artistic militancy.
Antenne, Bashar Murad, 4 min (2021)
Bashar Murad – Antenne Ft. Tamer Nafar (Official Music Video)
Bashar Murad – بشار مراد is a queer Palestinian musician and filmmaker producing globally influenced pop music rooted in Palestinian spirit.
Maskhara, Bashar Murad, 4 min (2020)
Bashar Murad – Maskhara (Official Music Video)
Bashar Murad – بشار مراد is a queer Palestinian musician and filmmaker producing globally influenced pop music rooted in Palestinian spirit.
Body Tones, Hazar Jawabra, 2 min (2022)
Reactivating traditional manufacturing, Palestinian designer Hazar Jawabra has found in knitwear an effective way to express her beliefs and feelings – from her passion for history to her disagreement with societal constraints, including gender and sexual repression.
Speakers
Colectivo Malvestidas is a transfeminist and transdisciplinary activist collective formed in 2016 in Santiago, Chile, by artists and researchers Loreto Martínez and Tamara Poblete. The collective believe that by putting disobedience as a liberating praxis at the heart of the discussion, clothing can be thought of as not just a powerful weapon of authority and control, but also of empowerment and subversion. Malvestidas positions itself politically from Latin America as a legitimate site of knowledge production, embracing decolonial/anti-colonial resistance practices and Latin American critical theory. Its projects include interventions in public space, curatorship and participation in contemporary art exhibitions, organization of academic meetings, among others.
Hadil Abuhmaid (she/her) is a media and communications studies doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon, United States. Her research examines the effects of soft and hard borders constructed by the occupation on the formation and self-representation of national identity in Palestinian feature films produced after the second Intifada. She co-authors an annual report that highlights social media trends in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA). Abuhmaid is the co-founder of “Filmlab: Palestine” and the co-chair of the Middle East Caucus at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Sharif Waked has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including “Tarjama/Translation” at the Queens Museum of Art, New York and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (2009-10), the 9th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (2009), “This Life” at the Contemporary Art Center of South Australia – CASCA, Adelaide (2009), “The Aesthetics of Terror” at CAM – Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2008), and more.
Elias Wakeem is a gender queer artist and activist, who mixes languages, changes characters and plays different identities, using grotesque body forms that help him create a scene, which challenges the boundaries existing in his society.
Under the co-creative direction of Omar Braika and Shukri Lawrence, Trashy produces and showcases collections tackling issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race, using fashion as a medium for challenging pre-established knowledges.
Bashar Murad is a Palestinian singer-songwriter and video artist based in East Jerusalem. His music addresses societal norms, the Israeli occupation, and gender equality in the Middle East.
Roberto Filippello (moderator) is Assistant Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is the editor of Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress and the author of several publications on queer and feminist fashion. Currently, he is writing a monograph on contemporary Palestinian fashion.
Sammy (moderator) speaking from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in the Netherlands.
Presented by BDS Netherlands, Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam
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