Screening and discussion
Admission starts at $5
November 28, 2023, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, November 28 at 7pm for a screening of Mohammad Ali Atassi’s Our Terrible Country followed by a discussion between Stefan Tarnowski and World Records editor Jason Fox.
This screening and discussion accompanies the publication of World Records Volume 8: Generations, edited by Stefan Tarnowski and Kareem Estefan. The exchange across a generational divide is paradoxical: successive generations can overlap in the same space and time, while also having distinct relationships to pasts and futures and to the political projects orienting them. This issue is interested in how historical events and conditions interpellate people, across age cohorts, and how generations are generated through their distinct responses to these calls. Generations are not pregiven categories or stable intervals along a timeline, but rather emerge and take shape as they describe, imagine, and act within a historical conjuncture.
Mohammad Ali Atassi, Our Terrible Country (2014, 85 minutes)
Two activists from two different generations embark on a perilous journey as Syria tumbles into the abyss. In Douma, a suburb of Damascus outside Assad regime control, where the dissident intellectuals Yassin al-Haj Saleh and his wife Samira Khalil have sought shelter, they meet the young photographer and fighter Ziad Homsi. Yassin and Ziad travel to Raqqa, Yassin’s hometown newly occupied by ISIS. Deciding to go into exile in Turkey, Yassin hopes for a reunion with Samira who remained in Douma; while Ziad hopes to travel back to Douma. But in the place Yassin calls “our terrible country,” choices have tragic consequences.
Cosponsored by the NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History.
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Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.