Zamakan (TimeSpace)
Amr Hatem and Katrine Dirckinck Holmfeld, 2019
Two-channel video installation, 35 min HD.
https://vimeo.com/326193421 password: Zamakan1982
1981: Mohamad Tawfic shoots the film Yaumyeat Mukatel (The Everyday Life of a Fighter) about the Palestinian Fedayeen in South Lebanon.
1982: Israel invades Lebanon. Tawfic is stuck in Damascus, while his daughter, wife and the unfinished film are besieged in Beirut. In a daydream, Tawfic sees the film spools flying through the air and landing in a dumpster.
2018: Tawfic’s apartment in Birkerød (a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark).
He shows us the only remains from the film. The behind-the-scenes photos.
1996: The behind-the-scenes photos were developed in Birkerød where the family arrives, after Damascus, Tunis...
Zamakan (TimeSpace) explores the “contrapuntal image”, which enables different space times to exist within the same image. Through the production of a two-channel video installation in collaboration with filmmakers and cultural producers, who came to Denmark between 1980s - 2015, the project asks: how to understand Zamakan as an experience of time, in which multiple different temporalities can exist at the same time? And how to create a visual archive that enables multiple temporalities and spaces to exist within the same frame?
Credits Zamakan(TimeSpace) 35 min HD two channels, 2019
Written & Directed by Amr Hatem & Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld
Cast
Samira Abdel Hassan, Ayman Abu El Hayja, Mohamed Tawfic, Rania Tawfic, Amr Hatem, Suleiman Juni, Walid Mezian, Abbas Mroueh.
Crew
Director of Photography: Talib Rasmussen
Camera Assistant: Ivan-Asen Mladenov
Sound: Arendse Krabbe & Nanna Elvin Hansen
Production assistant Daniela Agostinho
Logistic: Tomas Pocius;
Editing: Amr Hatem & Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld
Research: Abbas Mroueh
Archive material: Mohamed Tawfic, Ayman Abu el Hayja and Samira Abdel Hassan personal archives.
Produced by Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld & Amr Hatem, with the support of the Danish Art Council & Sorte Firkant