“Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It’s no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.” ― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
There definitely is something deeply cinematic about Abu Dhabi; all is (…)
♦ Introduction
This blog is a place for all contributors of Nisimazine to continue to write, photograph, make video and discuss cinema together after the workshops. An extension of the magazine, this is a free space to keep sharing new insights and experiences through reviews, essays, quotes, interviews and festival reports. You can join any conversation by posting comments. So…, let’s go !
Friday 21 October 2011Editorial
By Celluloid Liberation Front, 21 October 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [en]
Thursday 20 October 2011Editorial
By Fuad Hindieh (Palestine), 20 October 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [ar] [en]
Everybody is rushing to reach the screenings on time, they need to arrive at least half an hour early to guarantee their seats. If you don’t hold a ticket, you may be subjected to standing in a queue as if you were queuing for food stamps. If you are lucky, you may be able to get through and continue your film experience. The volunteers checked my ticket and wished me a pleasant viewing, insisting on saying it in English.
The enthusiastic audience floods into the hall, scanning the area (…)
The enthusiastic audience floods into the hall, scanning the area (…)
Wednesday 19 October 2011Editorial
By Celluloid Liberation Front, 19 October 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [ar] [en]
Twelve people killed in Yemen, protesters clash with police in Rome. The citizens of Tokyo, Paris, Athens, Washington, London, Madrid, Berlin, Hong Kong, and New York air their views on financial terrorism; some are arrested… The construction workers outside our windows are always the same, they don’t seem to need rest.
We watch films about the Egyptian revolution, we petition against the imprisonment of Iranian artists, but we don’t seem to connect the dots. In our opinion there are (…)
We watch films about the Egyptian revolution, we petition against the imprisonment of Iranian artists, but we don’t seem to connect the dots. In our opinion there are (…)
Tuesday 18 October 2011Editorial
By Ali Shujaa Al Afeefi (United Arab Emirates), 18 October 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [ar] [en]
Only five days left of the 5th edition of Abu Dhabi Film Festival. If you don’t know enough what’s coming next, don’t worry! Nisimazine journalists are here to give you the latest updates on today’s events, and will still be present the next few days with new issues to guide you.
Today many events take place at the festival. We would suggest you not to miss this afternoon’s master class at 2:30 p.m. about ‘Naguib Mahfouz: Man of Cinema’, a panel discussion which highlights the writer’s (…)
Today many events take place at the festival. We would suggest you not to miss this afternoon’s master class at 2:30 p.m. about ‘Naguib Mahfouz: Man of Cinema’, a panel discussion which highlights the writer’s (…)
Editorial
By Mohamed Beshir (Egypt), 18 October 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [ar] [en]
Is it possible to conduct a conversation about Egypt nowadays without tackling the revolution? According to secluded Egyptian screenplay writer Mustafa Zikri “The politician is being home-delivered now.”
The surge of artwork and films that peaked right after the revolution, as an immediate reaction to it, was somehow expected from such a youth-driven struggle. Yet the overriding stance from critics and art curators in Egypt was not as excited, unsurprisingly because of the expected (…)
The surge of artwork and films that peaked right after the revolution, as an immediate reaction to it, was somehow expected from such a youth-driven struggle. Yet the overriding stance from critics and art curators in Egypt was not as excited, unsurprisingly because of the expected (…)
Monday 17 October 2011Editorial
By Ziad Abdul Samad (UAE), 17 October 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [ar] [en]
A film festival changed my life. The 2007 International Film Festival of India was supposed to be an excuse to skip college to get high on a beach in Goa. Instead I almost ended up living at the movie theater; sustained on a diet of visual enlightenment and caramel-cheese popcorn (another revelation), and sleeping during the Chinese period movies.
It was like seeing a painting for the first time. Until then, serious cinema did not exist for me. Movies had meant Hollywood or Bollywood. (…)
It was like seeing a painting for the first time. Until then, serious cinema did not exist for me. Movies had meant Hollywood or Bollywood. (…)
Editorial
By Fuad Hindieh (Palestine), 17 October 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [ar] [en]
Under the special program section, the festival celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arab writer who won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1988. It also celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore who became ‘the first non-European Nobel’ by earning the Prize in 1913.
Mahfouz and Tagore are representatives of their countries, which they contributed to put on the cultural map. They tell stories about their nations and (…)
Mahfouz and Tagore are representatives of their countries, which they contributed to put on the cultural map. They tell stories about their nations and (…)
Friday 14 October 2011Editorial
By Janka Barkóczi (Hungary), 14 October 2011 | Editorials |Translations: [ar] [en]
One year passed and we are here again. We hope you are well and had a great time since we lastly met, just as great as we definitely had. This is already the 6th year in the history of Nisimazine workshops and the second together with Abu Dhabi Film Festival. We are a group of cinephile journalists working in an international network; we remain young, as we hope, forever. If you associate with our team for the festival, we will invite you to travel around the whole world since we ourselves (…)
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