Documentary in Arab Media
Debate with Giles Trendle, Al Jazeera TV, Mohamad Soueid, Al Arabiya TV, and Yousri Fouda, On TV. Documented by Chamber of Public Secrets at the Film Institute in Copenhagen, November 2010. Part I Part II
Airwave Conflict
The controversy of Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, MBC TV, Al-Manar, Al-Hurra and SAWA Radio. This category is a continuation of ‘Broadcast Ethics & Aesthetics‘ as it debates the role and relation between Arab and Western media. Airwave Conflict I: The freedom and role of the Arab media. Airwave Conflict II: Media competition.
Broadcast Ethics & Aesthetics
This category highlights events and statements that question the ethics and aesthetics of Arab and Western media and the way the two portrait each other. The rough-cut footage speaks for itself and although the content is real, the project Al-Manar First – Al-Jazeera Next? is still in progress and should mainly be regarded as information...
Dubai Media City
The program portraits the development of the media in Dubai, exemplified by the establishment of Dubai Media City and the photo magazine Soura, established by a group of young professionals, and sheds light on the motivations and aspirations for the media in the future.
Home Works III
I Feel a Great Desire to Meet the Masses Once Again. Humoristic presentation at Homeworks III Festival in Beirut of the complicated travel of artist Walid Raad.
Hysterma
In the work titled Hysterma, we are told that falafel, which originated in Egypt, is both an iconic Palestinian food and a national dish of Israel. However, by the 70s, Jewish cookbooks stopped citing the falafel’s Arabic origins, leading to resentment among Arabs regarding the cultural appropriation of this iconic food. Even though the video...
The Man with the Devil
A trip between Malmö and Copenhagen turns into an unexpected meeting with the man with the devil inside. Trailer.
Comrade Alfredo Neri
Comrade Alfredo Neri is a “performative documentary” on media representation and identity construction through the media. The video is a constructed documentation, with real interviews and footage material, about the life of Alfredo Neri, the spokesman of the Italian fraction of the Skinhead Movement. The skinheads are affiliated with the neo-Nazis and are active in the...
CPS on tv-tv
CPS started to broadcast on tv-tv / Copenhagen Channel in 2005. During 2005 and 2006 the collective has produced more than 30 programs. Independent video journalism, semi documentarism and experimental video making have has been the orbit of the broadcasting. Independent video journalism is the result of mainstream media becoming a standard apparatus without much...
D-Rama-Dan
Visual exploration into the Tinderbox by Danish novelist Hans Christian Andersen, accompanied by a variety of linguistic accents and sound tracks. D-Rama-Dan is a socially based linguistic drama negotiating matters like gender, class struggle and prejudices through the use of contemporary media. The visual paraphrase was shot in two different countries, while the sound track...
