Made over six years in the hotels of six different countries, Hotel Diaries is a series of video recordings which relate personal experiences to the current conflicts in the Middle East. In these works, which play upon chance and co-incidence, the hotel room is employed as a 'found' film set, where the architecture, furnishing and decoration become the means by which the filmmaker's small adventures are linked to major world events. Works in the series include Frozen War (Ireland, 2001), Museum Piece (Germany, 2004), Throwing Stones (Switzerland, 2004), B & B (England, 2005), Pyramids/Skunk (The Netherlands 2006/7), Dirty Pictures (Palestine 2007) and Six Years Later (Ireland 2007).
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Set in an imagined present in which a bridge spans the Strait of Gibraltar, Atlantropa mixes fact and fiction by connecting the bridge to contemporary news reports and to a modernist architect's vision: to dam the Strait and create a new continent. Originally intended as a symbol of unity between Africa and Europe, the bridge is eventually seized by EU forces and takes on a completely different meaning. The Gilbraltar Bridge, first mentioned in science fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, has more recently been investigated as an actual possibility by the United Nations.
UntitledA circumspect portrait of Astika, a rough loner who lives on a Danish island and has let his farm run wild. For 15 years, he has lived in a run down farmhouse and his project has been to let the land around him grow unchecked, but now he has been forced to move out by people who prefer more respectable neighbours.
United Kingdom (Great Britain),
Any: 1994
UntitledVideo of the 1967 meeting in London of the “Symposium on the Dialectics of Liberation and the Demystification of Violence”, organized by R.D.Laing, with Allen Ginsberg, Paul Sweezey, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, etc. An important record of the spectrum of leftwing politics and personalities during the turbulent Sixties.
UntitledWith a unique and exclusive interview with His Highness the Aga Khan and with rare footage, this hour-long documentary reveals the history of the Ismailis, chronicles the Aga Khan's rise to power half a century ago, and examines his ongoing struggle to maintain the delicate balance between tradition and modernity. This is the first film on the Aga Khan in over forty-five years.
UntitledThe Interactive Sonic Environment is a multi-layered internet-based space of sounds in which users experience sensitive listening within a commuting journey in the London Underground. The environment contains contributions made by volunteers, in the form of meaningful sounds selected by them and reflective texts written by them. Five main spaces—entrance, tickets, corridor, platform and carriage— have been divided into categories according to the movement that the commuters make during the journey (e.g. going up escalators to the tickets' place). Four ‘symbolic' spaces—doors, trains arriving, announcements and steps—are the result of repetitions in their selections, which I considered relevant as a shared space in their memories - sub-spaces derived from the real space. Each category contains a list of sounds that are triggered and overlapped according to the user's navigation. The activity proposed by the artwork is one of “wandering”, or free navigation. Navigation allows, through the resultant layering and sequencing, the perception of a musical discourse of the commuting experience. It is a single-user multimedia application that embodies collective meaning. The whole of the virtual space and the feelings triggered by it become the focus of the experience.
This video documentary charts how since the end of the Cold War, which culminated in the collapse of the Soviet Union, only two main ideologies remain - Islam and Capitalism. It explains how the Muslim Ummah has continued to embrace Islam despite the fact that is has been removed from their practical lives and the international sphere after the destruction of the Khilafah; and how in its absence, the standard bearer of Capitalism, America, has a initiated a dangerous campaign targeted at making Capitalism prevail in the world.
UntitledHafiza born a beautiful young Muslim girl in London is trying to find herself. She is yet undecided wether the Hijab is for her. Her father does not want her to go to the mosque. He fears she will get up to no good there, it being perfect breading ground for social interaction amongst young people. So she takes part in all sorts other youthful activities like cart racing, without her fathers knowledge. As long as her mum knows, cause she doesn't really listen to her dad.
Two Eritrean girls enchant with fragmentary tales of escaping their country and what it really feels like being a child refugee, alone in London. A intimate portrait, highlighting the emotional fallout of political conflict commissioned for London Borough of Islington's "Kick Islamophobia" campaign.