Hia wa Houa Van Leo
Elle +Lui Van Leo
Van Leo was born in Jihane, Turkey, in 1921, from an Armenian family that moved to Egypt in 1924. He opened a studio in Cairo in 1947 and is a good example of the photographer craftman. Although he is one of few photographers from that period to consider themselves as artists. The film is then an attempt to look at the photography of the 40s and the 50s from a critical perspective by putting face to face traditionnal portrait photography and video. It is a dialogue betwen two media : crafted black and white print and the electronically colored and manipulated screen, to comment the transformation in art practice and terminologies and to evoke some of the social, urban and political transformations that took place in Egypt over fifty years of its recent history.
Lebanon - 2001 - 32 mn - Mini DV - Colour
Réalisation
Akram Zaatari
Image
Akram Zaatari
Montage
Michelle Tyan
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Production
Fondation Arabe pour l'Image,
PO Box 13-6676, Chouran,
1102 214 Beyrouth, Liban
Tél : +961 1 336 820
Fax : +961 1 336 820
E-mail : info@fai.org.lb
Co-Production
Akram Zaatari
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Ventes
Fondation Arabe pour l'Image,
PO Box 13-6676, Chouran,
1102 214 Beyrouth, Liban
Tél : +961 1 336 820
Fax : +961 1 336 820
E-mail : info@fai.org.lb |
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