Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part I & II,
Lebanon, Kurdistan, Syria, 2017, 27’, AR/e
Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part IV - Reverse Shot
Lebanon, Germany, 2021, 35’, AR/e
Who is Afraid of Ideology is an expansive filmic quadrilogy that contrasts frameworks of ownership, extraction, and accumulation, with ideas associated with feminism, collectivism, and grassroots revolt. In Part I (2017) & Part II (2019) of Who Is Afraid of Ideology?, Arsanios addresses forms of self-governance and knowledge production that have emerged from the Kurdish autonomous women’s movement. Part 3: Micro Resistencias (2020), takes place in Tolima, Colombia, and focuses on the current systemic war led by transnational corporations against the tiniest and most essential aspect of life: seeds. Part 4: A Letter Inside a Letter (2021–ongoing) examines the issues of inheritance, ownership, property and value through questioning the neoliberal politics of visibility and invisibility.
Marwa Arsanios was born in Washington, DC, USA, in 1978. She currently lives and works between Berlin and Beirut. Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who reconsiders mid-twentieth-century politics from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, spatial practices, and land struggles. She looks at histories of resistances in their contemporary resonance. Arsanios approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines. She is the co-founder of the Research Project 98weeks.
Film/BookClub is a series of screenings and readings by Les Complices* that focuses on feminist perspectives of the Palestinian struggle in relation to other international solidarity movements and liberation struggles. The series is a collaboration with other artists, groups, and spaces across Zürich. It was inspired by our friends and comrades, who have been relentlessly organising reading groups and film clubs over the last few months to create shared spaces for watching, reading, collective discussions and coming together.
This event is in collaboration with SAE Greenhouse & arvae.
✦ 6. May 2024, 17:00–20:00
✦ 17:00: The arvae x SAE Greenhouse library will be open with reading materials centering decolonial feminist perspectives on agroecology.
✦ 18:00–20:00: film screening followed by talk/discussion with Marwa Arsanios.
✦ Location: SAE Greenhouse, Hädeliweg 19, 8044 Zürich
