Inass Yassin Studio
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Inass Yassin Studio
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"....Inass Yassin takes us into an exciting excavation of the cinematic modernity of Ramallah beginning with the 1950s. This is a period and a theme which has hardly been touched. Instead of a Cinema Paradiso, we encounter an acute nostalgia reminding us how much modern technology, while potentially and actually giving access to a much wider and versatile cinematic experience, has often been a step backward. That earlier experience was marked, in Yassin’s review, by an intimate sociability, and sense of communal interaction, which has all but disappeared." Jerusalem Quarterly by Institute for Palestinian Studies, Cinemas and Checkpoints, Editorial, Issue 42, 2010
The Projectionist Room and The Documentation
Projection started as on ongoing research on Al-Waleed Cinema in 2008; one of 3 cinema houses in Ramallah & Al-Biereh that vanished. the work documented different phases of building destruction, by following its history in the collective memories of its historical audience; playing with its critical aspect of political & social transformation in our Palestinian context.
Projection deals with Al Waleed Cinema, an example of transforming vanishing public space within the Palestinian context. It witnesses transitional moments in a dramatic process of social & political conversion.
Projection started in 2008 to document the building of the cinema in 2 years of destruction process that gradually unfolded the social & political history in the city.
Abi Fawk Eshajarh (My Father In The Tree) (1969), an Arab film was announced by a poster campaign to be screened at Al-Waleed Cinema on the 12th of July 2010, at 8:00 pm in Ramallah & Al-Bireh.
Projection. Free Entrance, invited the public to attend a projection of Al-Waleed Cinema which was under demolition. , Posters of the Arabic film: ”Abi Fawk Esh-shajara” (1969) depicting the stars: Abd Haleem Hafez, Nadia Lutfi, and Merfat Amin, were spread around Ramallah and Al-Bireh, advertising the screening at Al-Waleed Cinema. The poster was the last poster that stayed in the cinema window from 1969 till 2010 when I visited the site.
The projection was documentation, research In cinema culture, site-specific installation that raises questions on the changing politics and social values. It exposed the demolition of 3 cinema houses in the city of Ramallah & Al Bireh.
To read the article: Projection: Three Cinemas in Ramallah & Al-Bireh by Inass Yassin visit:
https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/42-Projection_10.pdf
Projection Free Entrance, Loudspeakers announcement in Ramallah and Al-Bireh, 2010 A recorded advertisement was played through loudspeakers which were fixed on a touring car. . The announcement was: Abi Fawk Eshajarah: "My Father on The Tree (1969), staring by Abd Haleem Hafez, Nadia Lutfi & Merfat Amin. For the first and the last Time since 40 years, at Al-Waleed Cinema. On Monday the 12d July 2010 at 8:00 pm and the biggest surprise : It is Free Entrance!
Projection Free Entrance, Loudspeakers announcement in Ramallah and Al-Bireh, 2010 A recorded advertisement was played through loudspeakers which were fixed on a touring car. . The announcement was: Abi Fawk Eshajarah: "My Father on The Tree (1969), staring by Abd Haleem Hafez, Nadia Lutfi & Merfat Amin. For the first and the last Time since 40 years, at Al-Waleed Cinema. On Monday the 12d July 2010 at 8:00 pm and the biggest surprise : It is Free Entrance!
Poster Campaign 2010
Three days poster campaign invited the public in Ramallah and Al Bireh to attend the last screening at Al-Waleed Cinema.
Projection Free Entrance, Loudspeakers announcement in Ramallah and Al-Bireh, 2010.
A recorded advertisement was played through the loudspeakers which were fixed on a touring car.
The announcement called for:
Abi Fawk Eshajarah: "My Father on The Tree (1969), staring by Abd Haleem Hafez, Nadia Lutfi & Merfat Amin.For the first and the last Time since 40 years, at Al-Waleed Cinema.
On Monday the 12d July 2010 at 8:00 pm
and the biggest surprise : It is Free Entrance!
In collaboration with The Municipality of Ramallah; وين ع رام الله and The Ethnographic and Art Museum of Birzeit; Ramallah, The Fairest of Them All !
Projection Free Entrance, Site Specific Installation
Projection Failed, Mixed Media Installation at Your Space Gallery, Van Abbe Museum, 2010.
Abi Fawk Eshajarh (My Father In The Tree) (1969), an Arab film was announced by a poster campaign to be screened at Al-Waleed Cinema on the 12th of July 2010, at 8:00 pm in Ramallah & Al-Bireh. Due to specific circumstances, the movie was not projected.”
To learn more:
https://vanabbemuseum.nl/en/programme/programme/inass-yassin-projection-edition-101/
Negative Projection, Projectionist Room, 120x90x4 cm, Light box 2010.
The poster of Arabic film:” Abi Fawk Esh-shajara” (1969) depicting the stars, Abd Haleem Hafez, Nadia Lutfi, and Merfat Amin, along with a poster of Jamal Abd Nasser, they were found in the poster window in the cinema house before demolition.
Negative Projection used the materialistic aspect of light & the movie reel. 2 elements that made the movie projection possible.
Negative Projection is an art project that raises questions on the changing space, politics and social values, in relation to the cinema culture in Palestine between fifties & late nineties.
This project explores the signs of demolition around a cinema building in the city of Ramallah & Al Bireh and the repercussions of changes in the urban & social landscape.
Left to right:
Negative Projection, Projectionist Room, 120x90x4 cm, Light box 2010.
Negative Projection, Fares Oudeh, 120x90x4 cm, Light box 2010.
Negative Projection, Beam Windows, 120x90x4 cm, Light box 2010.
Negative Projection, Nasser, Haleem, and Nadia. 120x99cm, Light box 2010.
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