Filmography
Medium length Documentaries (All screened on Satellite TV) Smile! You are in South Lebanon
53 minutes- Documentary 2008
Sony PD-170
O3 Production-MBC
While the politicians of the world are focused on saving Lebanon from a potential civil war and a reoccurring failed elections, the filmmaker goes on a family visit to south Lebanon and focuses the lens on her animated uncle Rami, who would much rather swim, little Mariam who is learning how to walk and Ali, the courageous farmer, who is giving his banana tree a Cesarean Section. The result is an intimate and vibrant family portrait, which represents the potency of the Lebanese dark humor—a talent that has helped them cope with wars still fresh in memory.
Arabizi 101 53 min. Documentary Sony PD170-DV CAM 2006 03 Production-MBC
By following a character from Jordan, Egypt, and Kuwait, this film explores why arabizi is becoming a more widespread linguistic phenomenon in the Middle East. The film features academics that explain the phenomenon from different perspectives critiquing this hybrid language and the identity it generates. The film tries to empower the arabizi speakers who believe that they have no choice but to speak that way and offers them a challenge that suggests that indeed they do have a choice.
Caution! Comment Ahead ( May,2006) 35 min. Documentary Sony PD 170-DVCAM 2006
Why are so many men ready to verbally harass women on the streets? What is going through their heads? The director travels the bumpy roads of Amman to highlight the social, psychological and moral complexity which happen to normalize this daily practiced phenomenon.
Short Documentaries and Video Art
Our Kuffiyyah in London, 5 min. Documentary- Jan, 2007 - Sony PD 170 and still photography
By secretly snapping photos of Londoners wearing the popular Palestinian scarf, the “Kuffiyyah”, the filmmaker is left wondering about how her Palestinian grandparents would react if they can witness their scarf’s ironic commercial appeal.
A recycled love story, 28 min Documentary- May, 2007 - Sony PD 170
One of those many British protesters dancing on the streets for “peace in the Middle East “ is Clemmie James. But Is Clemmie idealistic because she’s young? A whimsical portrait documentary of an imaginative British woman exploring her unlimited possibilities in alternative London. Clemmie turns this intimidating city into a cozy village where everyone on the street is a potential friend invited to her many circles. -Except maybe her father, who doesn’t like circles much, nor holding people’s hands and singing. Clemmie’s ‘holistic binge’ is an appetizing one, especially for the romantic in us.
Beautiful Boy 1.5 minute. Video art, Sony PD 170 2006, Part of Femlink’s “fragility” project
by filming my bed, i tried to portray an intimate relationship between myself and my beloved Adam whom i lost to the highest form of fragility : sudden death.
The Kiss: Suspended, 2 min- Video Art 2007 - Sony PD 170 Part of Femlink “preoccupation” Project
“The kiss” by Gustav Klimt has been promoted as a romantic painting of a man and a woman kissing on a bed of flowers. The viewers’ eye is often misguided by the kiss and hardly is it noticeable that the lady is clutching her feet so as not to fall off the cliff. My personal failed romance is what preoccupies me. I’m preoccupied with whether I should walk away before my fall, or enjoy the kiss while it lasts.
Like most of us Nayef has a mobile. ( Jan, 2004) 5 minutes. Documentary - JVC mini DV camera - AFC productions
A documentary about an urban shepherd, whose presence with his herd in western Amman highlights the prevalent visual contrast between tradition and modernity, offering a refreshing outlook on shepherds in the 21st century.
Made in China (June, 2004) - 3 minutes. Video Art - JVC mini DV Camera - AFC productions
A sensual journey of the fifth sense and its relationship to consumer culture.
Arab terrorist management camp (August,2004) - 9.20 minutes. Mockumentary - JVC mini DV Camera - AFC productions
When terrorism becomes even more closely linked to Arabs and Islam, a terror prevention rehabilitation camp known as the (Arab Terrorist Management Camp) is designed to help potential Arab terrorists overcome their terrorist tendencies. The film starts off in a documentary fashion but slowly takes the shape of an infomercial mocking the capitalization on "terrorism”.
Film festival selection
New Mexico Middle East film festival 05 Toronto Arab Film festival 05 - TransArab video- at OVNI in Barcelona 06
Emirates Film Competition, UAE 05
Ecofilms Festival '05, Greece.
Al Jazeera film festival- Qatar 06
World Congress for Middle eastern studies ( WOCMES-2) Amman 06
Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, 06
Salaam DK festival in Denmark,
07 Palestinian film festival, London, 07
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