Works of Samir Nahas often reflect a crack from which leaks the blur between reality and inner fantasies. They also present oscillations between polarities such as macro and micro or comical and grave. The esthetic deliberately relies on a mélange of resolutions and footage, borrows from fictional documentary formats and uses editing strategies in order to translate impulsive changes of direction and moods. The works can be seen as tales that conveys conflicting sensations contained within the same body. Here “body” is understood as any organism, group or ecosystem composed of agents producing effects on each other. In Samir’s work duration is cut into fragments and reassembled in order to create short suspensions or anecdotes diverging from climactic narratives. Poetry, portrait and para-ethnography collide and form mythological ensembles of characters projected in unlikely environments.
May 9–May 12
May 9-12
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State Street
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