 'in/tangible cartographies – new arab video' was commisioned by World Wide Video Festival 2001, and especially curated by Jayce Salloum.
Poetically investigating the intersection of cultures and narratives grounded in history and speculation the videotape locates insights and associations, inquiring into the nature of displacement and rootedness, and the ever presentness of both. An itinerant Armenian painter Boutros (Bedros), a refugee fleeing the 1915 genocide in his country makes a circuitous voyage with his brother to a mountain village in Lebanon where he is commissioned to paint the interior of Hassan's family's home. Inevitable contradictions arise bearing witness to the unsettling trials and collisions when integrating the foreign into the familiar. "Home is not a fixed place but a constantly negotiated space between self and location." Hassan deftly maps the uneasiness of reinventing identity, adaptability, and cultural preservation.
– Jayce Salloum
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Narrator Atom Egoyan, music Mayrem Hassan, Roula Said and Debashis Sinah
Jamelie Hassan ° 1948 London, Ontario, Canada
Lives and works in Canada
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