Abounaddara is the nickname for a man with glasses. The collective chose it based on its use in Arab cities where ordinary people are identified by their professions or by the names that are associated with the latter. They also chose this name to sound their rallying cry for the world republic of documentary cinema, one of whose earliest pioneers, Dziga Vertov, called himself the man with the camera. Abounaddara brings together documentary film professional from here and there. Its first love is for short and intimate films, and it is more interested in stories of everyday life than in grand narratives. Nevertheless it works for both the small and the silver screen, as much for new media as for those of yesteryear.
We live in a world filled with images that are captured, edited, and published at hyper speeds, images referring to images. Our political, ethical, and intimate lives are constructed around images, through images, and in images. In situations of war and mass violations of human rights, it is our hyper-mediatized world that creates the typical…
post is pleased to announce “Abounaddara. The Right to the Image,” an online art exhibition that seeks to illuminate the contemporary conditions of the Syrian revolution, show solidarity with civil society in Syria, and provoke new thinking about media representation. Organized by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, Slought, and…
