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Samirah Alkassim
| Samirah Alkassim American University in Cairo +202 797 6374/202 795 8298 Fax: +202 795 7565 Email: salkasim@aucegypt.edu |
Samirah Alkassim is an independent filmmaker and film professor who
teaches at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She is currently
working on several projects including research on the experimental
arts in Cairo and the impact of digital video on cinema and the arts
for a future book. She is also developing a documentary video about
Palestinians living in Jordan, with focus on their relationship to
the land and the status of citizenship, in relation to the historical
ties between Jordan and Palestine.
Her background is in experimental film with minor specialization in
optical printing, but now she works in the experimental documentary
mode, in digital video. The question of the boundaries between
experimental and documentary form inflects most of her work. Previous
films include "From Here to There" (2003); "Far From You" (1996) -
distributed by Arab Film Distribution, "Lawrence of the Lambs"
(1996); "Trip/Ballade" (1992); and work in progress "Picker" (begun
1999).
Her recently published article, "Cracking the Monolith---Video and
Film Art in Cairo" can be found in New Cinemas: Journal of
Contemporary Film, vol. 2, no. 1, published by Intellect, UK.
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