I Had a Dream, Mom

The screening is part of a longer film program of Home Works 9: A Forum of Cultural Practice by Ashkal Alwan.

I Had a Dream, Mom
Dir, Lina Majdalanie (Saneh), 2006
45’, Lebanon
In Arabic with English subtitles
 
“Robert Abirached often told me that it is in the effervescence of the irrational, caught at the most intimate point of individual experience, that one must perhaps seek an alternative humanism, that is, a possible basis for a different order. One day, one night, rather, I had a dream; I told it to my mother; she understood. She threw the ball into my court; entangled in the rationale, I failed to catch it.”
 
Lina Majdalanie (Saneh) (b. 1966, Lebanon) is a Lebanese performer, director, and playwriter based in Berlin. She has a PhD from Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris). Her works and researches question the status of the body, citizenship and public space in societies stuck between archaism and modernism. She taught at HEAD (Geneva), DasArts (Amsterdam), Goethe University (Frankfurt), Bard College (Berlin), and HFG-Karlsruhe. She was a member of Home Workspace Curricular Committee-Ashkal Alwan (Beirut 2010-2014). She was a Fellow at the International Research Center Interweaving Performance Cultures/Freie Universität in Berlin (2009-2010).  

Screening is free of charge, but spaces are limited.