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Migrant Film Fest Picks Up Angles As It Goes

  • January 17, 2014
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For how to gain from adversity, see the evolution of the Visual Arts Festival Damascus.

Launched in 2010 as a forum where young Syrian artists could meet peers from abroad, the second edition was called off in 2011 as violence overtook protests, and seemed impossible to continue. But rather than give up on their project, its founder Delphine Leccas and collaborator Charlotte Bank chose to transform it.

“We decided not to abandon the idea, but to look for another form, and turned the festival into a nomadic event,” Bank explains. “This means we look for partner institutions to host us and develop a focus together.”

This weekend in Karlsruhe, Germany, the VAFD looks back on its four-year journey via selected film and video works by Arab artists from Rotterdam’s International Film Festival in 2012 and media art by Turkish and Arab artists from last year’s show at Istanbul’s alternative art space “DEPO”. These include anonymous Syrian photographers’ evocations of woundedness, a collective documentary of class struggle in Ankara, and multi-media works reflecting on the legacy of Palestinian caricaturist Naji Ali.

As a whole, its constellation of perspectives presents a kaleidoscopic view of ongoing regional trajectories and intuitions.

For more info – ZKM program

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Jennifer MacKenzie

Poet, writer and teacher Jennifer MacKenzie grew up on Bloomcrest Dr. in Bloomfield Hills, MI, which inspired her to wonder about places with patterns other than floral. Following her education at Wesleyan University's College of Letters and the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, she followed a zig-zag course that included a pilgrimage across the top of Spain and a long sojourn in Syria in pursuit of the language of Muhammad al-Maghout and Moudthaffar al-Nawwab. While in Damascus she completed the books of poems "Distant City" and "My Not-My Soldier" (forthcoming from Fence Books) and edited the magazine Syria Today. Her poems and essays can be found in numerous journals including the Kenyon Review online, Guernica, Quarterly West, and Lungfull. She currently lives in New York.

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