Film Presentation and Talk
Leila and the Poet – da lalala ti-ra is an essay film by Jasmina Metwaly encountering Egyptian composer Halim El-Dabh. Emerging from long-term research, El-Dabh’s story becomes a shared ground through which two sisters, navigating diasporic positions, find relations across distance and fragmented histories. The work renegotiates the relation between sound and image, and the different claims each makes on memory, evidence and truth. Following the screening, the film opens into a lecture-performance with sound and public conversation, asking how inherited regimes of seeing and listening continue to condition the contemporary and privilege certain ways of sensing over others.
Jasmina and Kamila Metwaly work across image, sound, activism, research and institutional practice. Their ongoing collaboration explores collective imaginaries, memory and the relations between seeing and listening. Working together, their practice is deeply engaged with forms of organising and mobilisation that activate knowledge beyond the structures they each inhabit. From Voice of the Wind Is Not a Metaphor to their long-term engagement with Halim El-Dabh, they trace how stories, archives and sonic histories travel across diasporic positions and disciplines.
Film Presentation and Talk: October 9, 3 pm / Flutgraben
Symposium exhibition: October 2 until 17 / Flutgraben
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Photo: Leila and the Poet, courtesy of Nurah Farahat ©