‘Syria: Snapshots of History in the Making’ Screening at Metropolis

Attend a screening of “Syria: Snapshots of History in the Making” by Abounaddara Collective at Metropolis as part of Video Works 2014.

Syria: Snapshots of History in the Making (2013)
– 53 minutes
– Arabic with English subtitles

Synopsis:
What can cinema do in face of the influx of images and information depicting Syria as a “country of evil “? This is the raison d‘être of the film—an invitation on a journey inside the counter shots of the Syrian news. It opens on Damascus, rocked by cries of freedom and the crackle of fire, and closes on a burial scene that turns into a resurrection. In between, the protagonists march in silence, or speak of their own dramas. From these snapshots unfold fragments of a history in the making, in which the protagonists are neither heroes nor victims, but men and women who happen to be in Syria, but could be elsewhere.

Free entrance.