THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Ghorba (غربة)” (May 9-15)

Written By Michael Workman

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Ghorba (غربة)

Description
A visual poem examining notions of exile, intergenerational migration, and memory between Cairo, New York and Kuwait.

Runtime: 13 minutes, 48 seconds
Best Viewed: Any Screen, Cinema Presentation

Director Biography - Alya Osman
Alya Osman is a researcher and artist from Cairo currently based in the UAE. She is interested in migration, collective memory, urbanism, and the heart of things.

She graduated from New York University Abu Dhabi in 2022 with a dual-degree in Film & New Media and Social Research & Public Policy.

Credits & Specifications
Director: Alya Osman

Completion Date: April 25, 2022
Country of Filming: Egypt, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, United States
Language: Arabic
Shooting Format: Digital
Student Project: Yes

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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