アクラム・ザアタリ（レバノン）
戦火のベイルートで育ったマルチ・ビジュアル・アーティスト。歴史と記憶の狭間を行き交うような繊細な写真、オブジェ、ドキュメンタリー制作などでニューヨーク現代美術館で上映シリーズが組まれるなど注目の映像作家。1997 年にはアラブ系民族の写真の保存と研究とを目的としたアラブ・イメージ・ファンデーションを立ち上げている。
This Day (83 min, 2003) – Shot in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, this essay uses transportation, video, and photography to examine images circulating in a historically charged, and presently war-torn and divided, Middle East. From images of camels in the desert to images of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the video looks at states of mind in relation to actual geographies. The video pays tribute to an unformatted and open-ended documentary approach, and examines modes of access to information such as travel, television and the Internet, while carefully displaying the resulting iconography. (from video deta bank)
Her + Him VAN LEO (2001) -A portrait of a studio photographer, Her + Him VAN LEO also examines the photography of the 1940s and 50s from a critical perspective rather than a nostalgic one. This documentary utilizes traditional portrait photography and video in a dialogue between two media: crafted black and white print, and the electronically colored and manipulated screen. This dialog comments on the transformations in art practices and terminologies, and evokes some of the social/urban/political transformations that took place in Egypt over 50 years of its recent history. (from Video Data Bank)
