Radical Closure
05:36:57 | 5 DVDs
Collection: Curated Compilations, Box Sets
Tags: Experimental Film, Landscape, Middle East, Politics



Curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, and originally presented by the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Radical Closure features works produced in response to situations of physical or ideological closure resulting from war and territorial conflicts. The program looks at what is known as the Middle East, and how the moving image has functioned throughout its history, charged with division, political tension, and mobilization. This 5-DVD box set has an accompanying monograph with curator’s essay, and features important work by 24 artists including Guy Ben-Ner, Harun Farocki, Mona Hatoum, Walid Raad, and Elia Suleiman. Many of the titles on Radical Closure are being made available to educational audiences for the first time.
Included Titles
Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: autobiography, crime or violence, diary, documentary, environment, family, jewish, landscape, media analysis, middle east, politics, sexuality, war |
Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: european film/video, experimental film, family, future, media analysis, middle east, music, photography, politics, surveillance, war |
Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: body, eastern european, family, landscape, middle east, war |
Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: animation, body, eastern european, expedition/travel, history, middle east, music, performance, politics, youth/childhood |
Collection: Curated Compilations Tags: architecture, body, expedition/travel, family, feminism, middle east, politics, post-colonialism |
Exhibitions + Festivals
Originally presented at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen.
DVD box set launch October 2010 at e-flux, New York and November 2010 at Whitechapel Gallery, London