This workshop explores ways of documenting the city by lingering on the small, often overlooked details that shape how we move through it; and on the personal experiences that surface in the rhythms of daily life. It invites filmmakers and visual artists to reflect on how a city can be sensed: through the quiet textures that rarely draw attention, the gestures and encounters that unfold in passing, and the layered social, cultural, and architectural fabric that reveals itself only when we learn to look closely.
The workshop will be conducted in Arabic.
Spaces are limited. Attendance is mandatory throughout the duration of the workshop.
To register, please complete the form here.
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Projects at the Lab: The Cinematheque | All That We Witness launches this December and continues into January with a series of encounters that look closely at contemporary directions in Arab documentary practice. The program turns to works that approach wider realities through the immediacy of lived experience; following how personal perspectives surface within, complicate, or cast new light on collective events. In doing so, it reopens the question of what the documentary form can offer today: how it examines the past, and how it engages the pressures and urgencies of the present moment.
The program brings together conversations, public discussions, and a workshop, alongside a film-screening series that opens this month with a film on the late Syrian director Omar Amiralay.