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Essay film festival.

• location: ICA and Birkbeck Cinema
• Date & time: Sat 25 – Fri 31 Mar 2023

The Essay Film Festival returns to the ICA with a selection of ambitious and politically engaged films of past and present. Experimental and political, the essay film calls into question the language of representation and operates at the forefront of cinema’s critical engagement with the world. Highlights of the festival include Med Hondo’s essay on the lives of immigrant workers in France and Assia Djebar’s poetic reworking of archive images shot in the Maghreb.

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The Essay Film Festival, 2015-

Temple, Michael The Essay Film Festival, 2015-. [Show/Exhibition]

The essay film has become one of the key focal points of Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image’s activities since the first Essay Film Festival in 2015. Although the main festival takes place over a week at the end of March each year, BIMI in fact organises essay-related screenings and events as part of its general programme. In the run-up to the annual festival, we also schedule a series of “prelude” essay film events, which form a very significant part of our broad research interests concerning the historical as well as contemporary manifestations of the essay form.

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Panel Recordings: Hussein Shariffe (1934 – 2005): Exile and homecoming between London, Cairo and Khartoum

Posted by Ecarter on Dec. 19, 2020 | 0 Comments On December 18–19 2020, three online panel discussions staged at the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) explored the global connections linking Sudanese filmmaker and artist Hussein Shariffe’s film oeuvre to transnational modernisms, and to more proximate British histories of migration, exile, colonial violence, and exilic homecoming. These are the recordings of the events that included Shariffe’s daughter Eiman Hussein, Erica Carter, Liz … Read more

Erica Carter in conversation with Ulrike Ottinger

Posted by Ecarter on Jan. 26, 2020 | 0 Comments Director Ulrike Ottinger in conversation with Professor Erica Carter at Ciné Lumière, Institut français du Royaume Uni. Following the screening of Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia in partnership with the Goethe-Institut London. As part of the Delphine Seyrig: Actress, Director and Activist film season.

Thomas Elsaesser in Discussion: BIMI Essay Film Festival 2018

Posted by Ecarter on March 28, 2018 | 0 Comments Find the recording of this event here: https://soundcloud.com/user-952189740/eff-2018-fourteen-thomas-elsaesser-in-discussion Details: The Sun Island, Thomas Elsaesser, Germany, 2017, Digital/Blu-Ray, 72 minutes, English and German – UK premiere. The screening was followed by a conversation between Thomas Elsaesser and Erica Carter, King’s College London With the support of the Goethe Institute, London, and the German Screen Studies Network In his first film, The Sun Island, Thomas Elsaesser, eminent film … Read more

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Khvay Samnang

Khvay Samnang was born in 1982 in Svay Rieng, Cambodia. He graduated from the Painting Department at the Royal University of Fine Art in Phnom Penh, where he lives and works today. Khvay’s multidisciplinary practice offers new views on historic and current events as well as on traditional cultural rituals using humorous symbolic gestures. In his work, which includes all media, he focuses on the humanitarian and ecological impacts of colonialism and globalization. The development of each body of work is based on thorough research and investigation of local specificities, structures and conditions. Traveling is a crucial tool for his practice. Engaging directly and personally with local communities – within and beyond the cultural scene – is an integral part of his work, which makes it highly relevant, critical and connectable to various contemporary discourses. His work shows a remarkable ability to engage with cultural and geographic contexts as well as with spatial and institutional settings.

Khvay Samnang is among the most promising up-and-coming international artists. His outstanding artistic significance is proven by his prestigious exhibition and grant portfolio. His solo exhibitions include Dancing the Land , ifa Gallery Stuttgart, Germany (2022); Calling for Rain , Tramway, Glasgow, Slotland (2021); A Forest of Spirit , Nova Contemporary Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; Khvay Samnang “Preah Kunlong” & “Where is my land?” , Batia Sarem Gallery, Siem Reap, Cambodia; Capsule 10: Khvay Samnang, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2019); Where is my land? , Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh (2017); Bloom Projects Exchange Series , Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, USA (2016); The Pacific Project: Khvay Samnang , Orange County Museum of Art, CA, USA; Footprints of Yantra Man , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, Enjoy My Sand , Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Rubber Man , Jeu de Paume, Paris, CAPC Bordeaux, France (2015); Human Nature , Tomio Koyama Gallery, Singapore (2014); and Newspaper Man , SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh (2012). His group exhibitions include The Statistics of Fortune , Macao International Art Biennale 2023, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China, 2023; Festival Indonesia Bertutur 2022; documenta 15, Hubner, Kassel, Germany, 2022;  Helsinki Biennial 2021, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Children’s Biennale 2021, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore; Listening to Voices , Futura, Prague, The Czech Republic (2021); Escape Routes , Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand; In The Forest, Even The Air Breathes , GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy; Green Currents , Foundaton Groupe EDF, Paris, France; Animalia , Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2020); Frieze (Live Performance) , London, United Kingdom; An Opera for Animals , Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, In One Drop of Water , Art Gallery of New South Wave, Sydney, Australia ; Borderlines , Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh, UK; Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, Future, CU Art Museum, The University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA (2019); Post Natur e (Taipei Biennial 2018), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan ; Constructing Mythologies , Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong; Animals & Us , Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK ; Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2018); Fleeting Territories , Kunstraum Niederosterreich, Vienna, Austria ; DOCUMENTA 14, Athens, Greece / Kassel, Germany; People, Money, Ghosts, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok (2017); Future Nature , Jack Hanley Gallery, NYC, USA; Phnom Penh, Rescures Archaeology, The Body and the Lens in the City, Fragments Empire: Cambodian Art from the Angkor Period, John Young Museum of Art, University of Hawaii, Manoa and Shifting Geographies, Bophanna Audiovisual Resource Center, Phnom Penh (2016), Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) , Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Globale: Global Control and Censorship , ZKM | Center of Art an Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (2015) ; A Time For Dreams , IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2014), If The World Changed , 4th Singapore Biennale (2014), Sights and Sounds: Global Video Art , The Jewish Museum, New York, USA (2013), Phnom Penh: Rescue Archaeology , ifa, Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany, and Poetic Politic , Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, USA (2012).

Khvay Samnang is a founding member of Stiev Selapak, an art collective dedicated to reappraising and remembering Cambodian history and exploring continuities in visual practices disrupted by civil war and the Khmer Rouge regime. Stiev Selapak set up two nonprofit art spaces in Phnom Penh: Sa Sa Art Projects (2010-2024), for experimental residencies, knowledge-sharing, and community-based programs; and SA SA BASSAC (2011-2018), a gallery, resource center, and reading room. He teaches Contemporary Art Class to emerging Cambodian artists under the program of Sa Sa Art Projects (2010-2020). Khvay received Artist Award Money from Japan Art and Culture Foundation (2024). He was nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize, Ukraine (2016), he was nominated for Prix Pictet Prize; AIGA AGO Photography Prize Long List, Canada; the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong; and Prudential Eye Awards Best Emerging Artist in Asia Using Photography, Singapore (2015). He was a grant holder of KfW Stiftung for the 12-month programme ‘Artists in Residence’ in collaboration with Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2014-2015); he was invited by KfW Stiftung as an alumnus to participate in a think tank with the world-renowned dancer and choreographer Akram Khan (2017); and he was artist in residency at Delfina Foundation, London, UK (2019).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2022     Love the Land , Tomio Koyama Gallery, Toyko, Japan
• 2022     Dancing the Land, ifa, Stuttgart, Germany
• 2021     Calling for Rain , Tramway, Glasgow, Slotland
• 2019     A Forest of Spirits , Nova Contemporary Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
• Khvay Samnang “Preah Kunlong” and “Where is my land?” , Batia Sarem Gallery, Siem Reap, Cambodia
• Capsule 10: Khvay Samanng , Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
• 2017     Where is My Land? Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2016     Bloom Projects Exchange Series , Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, USA
• 2015     The Pacific Project: Khvay Samnang , Orange Counry Museum of Art, CA, USA
• Enjoy My Sand, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• Footprints of Yantra Man, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
• Rubber Man: L’Homme caoutchouc , Jeu de Paume, Paris, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
• 2014     Human Nature , Tomio Koyama Gallery, Singapore
• Rubber Man , SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Staging Cambodia: Video, Memory and Rock-n-Roll , HAU, Berlin, Germany
• 2012     Newspaper Man , SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2011     Human Nature , Royal University of Fine Art, Phnom Penh / PhotoPhomPenh, Cambodia
• Untitled , SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Wedding + Hair , Hotel de la Paix Arts Lounge, Siem Reap, Cambodia
• 2010     Wedding , Sa Sa Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2009     Hair , Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2024     The Spirits of Maritime Crossing , Collateral Event of the 6oth International Art Exhibition, La Biennale de Venezia, Venice, Italy
• 2023     See you at the Studio! 10 Years of Artists in Residence , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
• The Statistics of Fortune , Macao International Art Biennale 2023, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
• 2022     Festival Indonesia Bertutur 2022
• documenta 15, Hubner, Kassel, Germany
• 2021     Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei (Master of Lands and Waters) , Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Sounds as Silence: The Academic Value of Life , Art Musuem of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
• OCAT Biennale 2021, Resonances of One Hundred Things , OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
• Living Matter , Russian National Museum Association of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• Helsinki Biennial 2021, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
• Children’s Biennale 2021, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
• Playground for Poetry , Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
• Climate Care: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures , MAK, Vienna, Austria
• Listening to Voices , Futura, Prague, The Czech Republic
• 2020     Escape Routes , Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
• In The Forest, Even the Air Breathes , GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
• Say the Unsaybles , 10 th “2020 Yeosu International Art Festival”, YeoSu EXPO Art Gallery, Korea
• Green Currents , Foundaton Groupe EDF, Paris, France
• Animalia , Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• 2019     Frieze (Live Performance) , London, United Kingdom
• An Opera for Animals , Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
• In one drop of water , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Bruised: Art Action and Ecology in Asia , RMIT Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
• Borderlines , Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh, UK
• Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, Future, CU Art Museum, The University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA
• 2018     Post Natur e (Taipei Biennial 2018), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• Beyond Wonder – Perspectives of Utopia , Art and Design Center at Nagoya University of Arts, Tokyo, Japan
• Constructing Mythologies , Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
• Taehwa Eco Art Festival 2018 , Ulsan, South Korea
• Sopheap Pich – Khvay Samnang – Shooshie Sulaiman , Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• Animals & Us , Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
• When animals talked to human , Travesia Cuatro Gallery, Madrid, Spain
• 21 st Biennale of Sydney: Superposition – Equilibium and Engagement , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• 2017     Le Paysage Apres Coup , Faux Mouvement- Contemporary Art Center, Metz, France
• The Pacific , Libby Leshgod Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Fleeting Territories , Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna
• documenta 14 , EMST, Athens, Greece, and Ottoneum, Kassel, Germany
• Political Acts: Pioneers of Performance Art in Southeast Asia , Art Center Melbourne, Australia
• The Darkened Mirror: Global Perspectives on Water , San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
• Human Nature , Northern Photographic Center, Oulu, Finland
• Dendromorphies : Créer avec l’arbre , Topographie de l’art, Paris
• People, Money, Ghosts (Movement as Metaphor) , Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
• Currents , San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
• 2016     The Immeasurable Here , Outlet Fine Art, NYC, USA
• Anywhere but here , Betonsalon, Paris, France
• Bloom Projects: Khvay Samnang, Footprints of Yantra Man , Musuem of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, California, USA
• Histories of Future , National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Future Nature , Jack Hanley Gallery, NYC, USA
• Phnom Penh, Rescues Archaeology, The Body and the Lens in the City, Fragments & Empire: Cambodian Art from the Angkor Period , John Young Museum of Art, University of Hawaii, Manoa
• Shifting Geographies , Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2015     Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) , Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
• The Pacific Project: Khvay Samnang , Orange Country Museum of Art, California, USA
• Globale: Global Control and Censorship , ZKM | Center of Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
• I see you see me , Delhi Photo Festival, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
• inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 – Architectural Landscapes: SEA in the Forefront , Queens Museum, NYC, America
• And That Which Was Always Known, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
• Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh , H Gallery, Bangkok and SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh
• Eagles Fly, Sheeps Flock , Southeast Asian Platform, Art Stage Singapore, Singapore
• Prudential Eye Awards Finalist Exhibition , Art Science Museum, Singapore
• Social Engagement Artists , Tomio Koyama, Singapore
• The Khmer Rouge and the consequences. Documentation as artistic memory work , Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
• 2014     Swimming in Sand; Growing Rice Under an Umbrella , No Vacancy, Melbourne with parallel programming at National Gallery of Victoria’s Ian Potter Centre and Federation Square Melbourne, Australia
• Phnom Penh Rescue Archaeology: The Body and the Lens in the City , Goldsmiths University of London for SEA Fest, UK
• Looking at the Big Blue Sky , Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Phnom Penh Rescue Archaeology: The Body and the Lens in the City , The Disappearance, Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore
• Medicine to Heal: Cambodian Photography since 2000 , Xishuangbanna Foto Festival, Yunnan, China
• Censorship , the 7th Move on Asia, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
• Rescue Archaeology: The Body and the Lens in the City , SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh
• 2013     Everyday Life : 4th Asian Art Biennale, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• If The World Changed , 4th Singapore Biennale, Singapore
• Sights and Sounds: Global Video Art , The Jewish Museum, NYC, USA
• Phnom Penh: Rescue Archaeology , ifa, Berlin and Stuttgart, Berlin
• Out of Nowhere: Photography in Cambodia , creativetimereports.org
• Developments , Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2012     Poetic Politic , Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, USA
• Deep Sea , Primo Marella Gallery, Milano, Italy
• Mondi , DryPhoto Contemporaneo, Prato, Italy
• Tobias Rehberger Pavilion “You Owe Me. I Don’t Owe You Nothin.’ROUNDTABLE , Gwangju Biennale
• Terra Incognita , Noorderlight Photography Festival, The Netherlands
• Current Views and Actions: Photography and Performance Documentation from Phnom Penh , Northern Illinois Museum, USA
• new artefacts , SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Between Fantasy and Reality : Contact Photography Festival at The East Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Ruptures and Revival : Cambodian Photography in the Last Decade, ICAS, Singapore
• 2011     Tokyo 2010 , Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Japan
• Between / Myanmar-Cambodia , Metahouse, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Arles Photography Festival Night of the Year , Arles, France
• 2010     Luxury Time and Space , Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Japan
• Orange International Photography Festival , Changsa, China
• Big Eyes , Sa Sa Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2009     Forever Until Now: Contemporary Art from Cambodia , 10 Chancery Lane Gallery,
• 2008     Arles Photography Festival Night of the Year , Arles, France
• Reminder , Photo Phnom Penh, Bophanna Audiovisual Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• I love PP , Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Silence , Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2007     Menthoamada , Gasolina, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Spirit House , Khmer Arts Academy, Takhmao, Cambodia
• 14 + 1 , French Cultural Center Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Market , Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Surfacing , Sala Artspace, Phnom Penh Cambodia
• Anon, Sala Artspace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2006     Contemporary Cambodian Art Review , Sala Artspace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• I am leaving , French Cultural Center Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2005     Sowing Seeds of Peace , Mekong River Basin, Institute of Education, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Similar things between the Khmer and the Thai , Thai Embassy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2004     Life: Student Exhibition for the 86th Anniversary , Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2023     Kampung Film Festival, Koh Koh Sdach, Koh Kong, Cambodia
• My Body, My Land , Legend Premium Olympia Hall 3, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2022     Painting with Light , National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
• Calling for Rain , Art Hub Copenhagen, Germany
• Popil , KfW Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2021     Embracing Nature, Online Screening, SKD Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
• 2019     Artists’ films of Khvay Samnang, Cine Club, Bophana Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2018     Living on the Edge , The Factory Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• 2017     The People’s Summit , McCormick Place, Chicago, USA
• Forces and Volumes , Bophana Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2015     Vidéothèque Project , Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona
• Inaugural Vision Forum , Gwangju at the Asian Cultural Center, South Korea
• BIMI Essay Film Festival , London
• Video Art Festival FOKUS , Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen.
• Inventing the Possible , Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

NOMINATION + AWARD

• 2024     Artist Award Money from Japan Art and Culture Foundation
• 2020     The Shpilman International Photography Prize 2020, Jerusalem
• 2016     Future Generation Art Prize, Ukraine
• 2015     Han Nefkens Foundation, BACC Award for Contemporary Art, Thailand
• Prix Pictet Prize
• AIGA AGO Photography Prize Long List, Canada
• Prudential Eye Awards, Best Emerging Artist in Asia Using Photography
• Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalist, Hong Kong
• 2014     Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong
• Future Generation Art Prize, Ukraine
• 2013     Future Generation Art Prize, Ukraine
• Prix Pictet, France

WORKSHOPS + RESIDENCIES

• 2022     Dance workshop with kids, Children’s Biennale 2021, National Gallery Singapore
• 2019     Delfina Foundation, London, UK
• 2017     Disarming the Gods: Think tank led by the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, KfW Stiftung, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2014-15 Artists-in-residence program by KfW Stiftung, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
• 2013     Residency Unlimited and Casita Maria / IN RESIDENCE, Season of Cambodia, New York, USA
• 2011     Creators Program, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
• Between, Metahouse, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Co-Founder, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2010     Creators Program, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
• Co-Founder, Sa Sa Art Projects, The Building, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2009     Co-Founder, Sa Sa Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2008     Bassac Studio, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2007     Photography: History and Training with Stephane Janin, Popil Photo Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Co-Founder of the artist collective Stiev Selapak

SOLO PUBLICATIONS

• 2022     Khvay Samnang “Dancing the Land” by ifa
• 2019     Khvay Samnang “A Forest of Spirits” by Nova Contemporary
• Khvay Samnang “Preah Kunlong” and “Where is my land?” by Batia Sarem Gallery
• 2015     Khvay Samnang: The Life Beneath My Feet, ed. by Nicola Müllerschön and Christoph Tannert, with an essay by Brianne Cohen and an interview by Hendrik Folkerts, Dortmund: Verlag Kettler, 2015.
• Khvay Samnang: Rubber Man: L’Homme-caoutchouc, curated by Erin Gleeson, exhibition catalogue Jeu de Paume, Paris, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2015.
• 2014     Khvay Samnang: Human Nature, Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2014.

COLLECTIONS

• Singapore Art Museum
• Mainland Art Fund
• The Queensland Art Gallery
• KfW Bankengruppe
• National Gallery of Australia
• MAIIAM Museum
• DC Collection
• Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa)
• Aura Contemporary Art Foundation
• Rei Foundation
• The National Museum of Art, Osaka
• 2006     B.A. Painting, Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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“Photographic Essay Film”, a new course on the way by AJMI

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Aljazeera Media Institute is organizing a “Photographic Essay Film” course for the first time within the category of visual creative skills. The course is going to be supervised and trained by Dr. Hossam Wahbeh from December 8 to December12.

 Dr. Hossam Wahbeh, course trainer, states that participants will learn how to derive and devise the best text or essay from photos in order to create a distinctive expressive artwork. He pointed out that the course requires reasonable knowledge and experience in basics of photography.

According to the course program, trainees will be introduced to concepts and basics of essay film, which will enable them to understand photographic creativity and how to analyze components of essay film. They will also learn how to write a suitable text based on ideas drawn from photographs while focusing on technical elements of the essay film and how to employ them effectively.

The course includes consists of intensive practical exercises and  graduation project represented in producing a Photographic Essay Film, giving participants an opportunity to practice and apply what they have learned in real production.

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Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) is a unique central London space for discovering the history of cinema, television and video, plus new directions in moving image culture. Our versatile 70-seat cinema was created in 2007, winning a RIBA award for its innovative design, carved out of a former library bookstack, and providing full wheelchair access from Gordon Square pavement. We have 35mm projection, suitable for showing archive prints, as well as high-quality digital projection, able to show DCPs and other formats and excellent sound. We also have a piano, to accompany silent-era films and regular Magic Lantern shows.

As the first true cinema venue opened within a British university, BIMI has pursued an imaginative public engagement agenda, combining original programming with academic research events and creative interaction with the artistic and cultural communities of London and far beyond. Students on Birkbeck’s MA Film Programming and Curating gain experience through working in the cinema, which also hosts other film and media course screenings and classes.

BIMI is one of three Birkbeck research institutes, along with Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH) and Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR). It was launched in 2013, with Laura Mulvey as founding Director, succeeded by Michael Temple in 2015, and currently Ian Christie. Since 2016, BIMI’s programme has been managed by Matthew Barrington. We co-operate with departments across Birkbeck, as well as other institutions and creative partners. These have included a partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, and the Essay Film Festival, organised in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Arts and cultural institutes around London. Currently we are hosting screenings organised by Birkbeck’s Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies among other series.

Our audiences

Most of our events are free of charge and open to the public, although pre-booking is advisable. As our programme addresses a variety of social, cultural and political issues related to academic research, we attract a broad range of people to our events, including academics, students, artists, curators, independent researchers, activists, and the general public. We are open to proposals from members of our audience, and welcome suggestions for future directions of programming.