Fondazione Antonio Ratti

Jalal Toufic

The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster

LECTURE
9 July 2009
FAR – Villa Sucota

Jalal Toufic

The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster

Jalal Toufic is a writer, film theorist, and video artist. He is the author of Distracted (Station Hill, 1991; 2nd ed., Tuumba, 2003), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (Station Hill, 1993; 2nd ed., Post-Apollo, 2003), Over-Sensitivity (Sun & Moon, 1996), Forthcoming (Atelos, 2000), and Undying Love, or Love Dies (Post-Apollo, 2002). His videos and mixed media works have been presented in North America, Brazil, the Middle East and Europe, most recently at the 16th International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) in a ”Focus Jalal Toufic ” program. He co-edited the special Discourse issue Gilles Deleuze: A Reason to Believe in this World, and edited the special Discourse issues Middle Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee and Mortals to Death. Toufic has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, USC, and, in Amsterdam, DasArts and the Rijksakademie.

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