Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Steven Cairns moderating panel discussion with Minia Biabiany, Basir Mahmood and Laura Huertas Millan at Sharjah Film Platform. Sharjah Art Foundation, 2019.

Overview

This panel considers filmmaking practices that interrogate conventions of the ethnographic while examining their potential to convey embodied forms of knowledge and experience through storytelling. How can working closely with people to communicate their stories reveal how their context is entangled with that of the filmmaker? How do practitioners negotiate the power imbalances and politics of representation that are inherent to filmmaking? Three artists working in moving image address such questions through a discussion of their work.

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Sharjah Film Platform (SFP), an annual programme organised by Sharjah Art Foundation, supports film production in the United Arab Emirates and the region and provides a critical platform for both established and aspiring filmmakers.