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Film Screening: Jalal Toufic, Variations on Guilt and Innocence in 39 Steps

  • Jalal Toufic

    Jalal Toufic (Lebanese, b. 1962) is a thinker, writer and artist. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. He is a professor of film studies at the American University in Cairo. He has made essay films and conceptual films and is the author of What Was I Thinking? (e-flux journal, Sternberg Press, 2017); The Dancer’s Two Bodies (Sharjah Art Foundation, 2015); Forthcoming (2nd ed., e-flux journal, Sternberg Press, 2014); and What Were You Thinking? (Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD, 2011). His work has been included in Sharjah Biennials 6, 10, and 11; 9th Shanghai Biennale; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MoMA PS1, Brooklyn; and MAXXI, Rome. He was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD in 2011, and Director of the School of Visual Arts at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, Alba 2015-2018.

     

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In conjunction with Aporia (Notes to a Medium) join us for two outdoor screenings of exhibiting artist Jalal Toufic’s film Variations on Guilt and Innocence in 39 Steps (2013). Through a reworking of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 film The 39 Steps, Toufic questions the possibilities that will never occur hidden in unconscious gestures in the film. Charting these gestures as capable of occurring across and beyond a moment, he explores the multiplicity of possible variations in time and action, highlighting a visual manifestation of doubt and uncertainty.

This screening will take place on the Belkin’s Outdoor Screen or you can view it here:

 

For a deeper discussion of his film, read Jalal Toufic’s “How Not to Be Subject to Variations on Guilt and Innocence” in his book What Was I Thinking? (Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2017), pages 128–132.

 

Image (above): Jalal Toufic, Variations on Guilt and Innocence in 39 Steps (still), 2013.

  • Jalal Toufic

    Jalal Toufic (Lebanese, b. 1962) is a thinker, writer and artist. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. He is a professor of film studies at the American University in Cairo. He has made essay films and conceptual films and is the author of What Was I Thinking? (e-flux journal, Sternberg Press, 2017); The Dancer’s Two Bodies (Sharjah Art Foundation, 2015); Forthcoming (2nd ed., e-flux journal, Sternberg Press, 2014); and What Were You Thinking? (Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD, 2011). His work has been included in Sharjah Biennials 6, 10, and 11; 9th Shanghai Biennale; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MoMA PS1, Brooklyn; and MAXXI, Rome. He was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD in 2011, and Director of the School of Visual Arts at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, Alba 2015-2018.

     

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