Akram Zaatari Movies

The Script is born out of the artist’s research into online content connected with the Arab world. Exploring YouTube using relatively neutral...

An eleven-minute film by Akram Zaatari from 1995. Memories and images of childhood are reflected both on the screen and in the small mirror that a...

GIFT discusses the idea of public space : on a public beach, right across from a residential block, a young boy begs the filmmaker to let him join...

On Photography, People and Modern Times is a two-channel video installation that tracks photographic records that Akram Zaatari researched and...

This portrait of famed Armenian-Egyptian studio photographer Van Leo, whose career spanned some 50 years, is also a reflection on transformations in...

"A 4 channel video installation based on youtube material made by individuals filming themselves in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia,...

It is a critique of television's promotion of political figures. A candidate running for presidency talks about his political agenda and addresses...

One of Zaatari’s earliest experiments in documentary video, All Is Well on the Border emerged from the filmmaker’s desire to understand...