Khabur is the longest tributary of the Euphrates, a transboundary river crossing the border between Turkey and Northeastern Syria.
The film departs an archaeological site in the valley of the Khabur River and follows the journey of Tell Halaf's archeological collection towards Berlin where it has resided since 1930.
It traces the circulation of violence in different times and contexts along the Khabur River and engages with the economic and political power relations that have been transforming the landscape of the Khabur valley. The film addresses photography and archeology as two disciplines emerging from the colonial-imperial enterprise, critically engaging with the imperial grammar of institutionalised archives, and examining the way it could be recycled, reimagined, and rehearsed.
Do. 28 Nov. 2024 | 13:30–15:00
Khabur (Xabûr)
Film Screening, followed by a discussion with the director Nafis Fathollahzadeh, moderated by Çiçek İlengiz (BEYONDREST), in cooperation with Allegra Lab
Online event
Please register here.
Nafis Fathollahzadeh is a visual artist and researcher working at the intersection of artistic research, video art and photography.
They were a fellow researcher in the Rosa Luxemburg scholarly program on Authoritarianism and Counter strategies and affiliated with EUME. They are art director and co-editor of Momentography of a failure, a multidisciplinary artistic and urban research platform for collaborative thinking, artistic collaborations, digital mapping and publishing. Their films were premiered at BFI, Doclisboa, Vienna Shorts, Dokumentarist, Duisburger Filmwoche, Prismatic Ground, Golden Apricot among others.
The event will take place online. The event is organized in cooperation with Allegra Lab's AnthroKino. Please register here.
The event is part of the BEYONDREST Conversation Series “Restitution and its Vantage Points: Beyond the Preservation Paradigm.” Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge (BEYONDREST) is an ERC-funded, five-year research project at the Forum Transregionale Studien (Project No. 101045661). More information on the project and the conversation series can he found here.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the speaker(s) and author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union, nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
