RABIH MROUÉ /PIXELATED REVOLUTION

16.10., 22pm @ MM CENTAR, video screening (22′)

“Syrians are filming their own death”, that is how the Pixelated Revolution begins; starting from one group of videos in which we witness a cameraman being shot by a sniper or simply by one of the regime’s soldier forces.

These videos show the moments of eye contact between sniper and the cameraman, when the gun’s line of sight and the camera’s lens meet.

This non-academic lecture/video arises from the point of how Syrians are recording their images “now and here” and reflects on the relationship of this act of photographic documentation with death, and how we perceive these video “now but there”…

A non-academic lecture/video by Rabih Mroué (2012)

“Syrians are filming their own death”, that is how the Pixelated Revolution begins; starting from one group of
Translated to English by Ziad Nawfal.

Commissioned and produced for and by dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel

Co-produced by: Berlin Documentary Forum – HKW/ Berlin 2012

The 2010 Spalding gray Award (Performing Space 122 in New York, The Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburg, On the Boards in Seattle and the Walker art Center in Minneapolis).

Supported by Goethe institute in Croatia (www.goethe.de/zagreb)

BIOGRAPHY

Rabih Mroué is based in Berlin. As an artist, actor and director, he merges visual art, performance and theatre in his work. With his theatre works he draws attention to the broader political and economic context; blending reality and fiction, he uses found documents, video footage, photographs and objects to compromise the authority of archival evidence.

Ne zanima me pričanje o ratu i o našoj patnji. Ono što me zanima je promišljanje rata.