Akram Zaatari Compilation #1
1996, 27:00 minutes, B&W, Arabic w English. s.t.
TAPECODE 406.01
TEACH ME (406.27)
1996, 6:00 mins
Teach Me is concerned with the meaning of icon images. This short essay depends on constructing new meaning out of recycled TV news footage where sounds of the news and dialogues from old Egyptian films add to the meaning of images.
REFLECTION (406.28)
1995, 11:00 mins
Light is the basic element of image making since it makes one see. In this short fiction, light is considered a discovery and a knowledge because seeing is getting information. Through the story of a boy who discovers the possibility of manipulating light with a mirror (an integral part of a camera) the idea of making images is introduced to the daily life of the kids in the old city of Saida. Reflecting light becomes a knowledge that gets transmitted from child to child. Reflection is about illumination and friendship.
A FAMILY PORTRAIT (406.29)
1995, 10:00 mins
In a courtyard of an old house in Saida, a women rehearses for a scene from a film. While she introduces her family, the camera captures scenes from her family's daily life mixed with other scenes from the proposed film.
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