‘Once Upon a Time in Damascus’ by Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis will hold a talk at Ashkal Alwan titled, “”Once Upon a Time in Damascus.”

It is the strange and forgotten story of America’s involvement in Syria back in the 1950s and 1960s; how that was wiped from collective memory, and replaced by a dreamy vision of a world populated by goodies and baddies.

Adam Curtis is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. He works for BBC television in London. His films have won many awards―including six BAFTAs. His series The Power of Nightmares was invited to the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. Curtis also writes multi-media political and cultural essays on a BBC website using longer sections of film from the archives.

This talk is part of the exhibition Adam Curtis: The Desperate Edge of Now

Language: English