In Transit 2008
In Transit 2008
35MM TRANSFERRED TO DVD, 16:9, COLOUR, STEREO, 4:55 MINUTES, AFGHANISTAN/AUSTRIA, ENGLISH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) / CINEMATOGRAPHER: MARC TUESCHER / EDITOR: FLORIAN GRUNT / MUSIC: DAMON THOMAS LEE / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND SIXPACKFILM, VIENNA; COURTESY OF AND COMMISSIONED BY THE OK CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, LINZ, AUSTRIA, IN CONJUNCTION WITH VIDEOFORMES, CLERMONT-FERRAND, FRANCE, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE CULTURE 2000 PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
With a practice spanning diverse media including film, performance and photography, Abdul’s recent work reflects on the decades of war sustained by her native Afghanistan, and the relationship between architecture and identity. Her slow and formal films withhold from the viewer a position of complete understanding, and suggest that the reality of contemporary Kabul and its people continues to be renegotiated through memory. In In Transit the rusting remains of planes and tanks on the outskirts of Kabul become the playthings for children. ‘These are uncanny sights,’ Lida Abdul has explained, ‘because the presence of these metallic giants is a symbol of sorts for the presence of the physical and psychological traumas of wars that have defined the history of Afghanistan for almost three decades now.’ sixpackfilm
Contact: Film screened as part of Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation exhibition only
Phone: Lida ABDUL
b. 1973 Kabul, Afghanistan
Lives in Kabul and Los Angeles, US
