Saturday 9 June, 12–5pm Sunday 10 June, 12-5pm Films selected by Yto Barrada Flatpack Festival: Dream Machine Cinémathèque de Tanger

12.15pm: Vues du Grand Socco et du Petit Socco (View of the Main 12pm: New Dream Machine Project Square and the Small Square) Dir: Shezad Dawood (UK, 2011), (duration 15 mins) Ikon Slow Boat By Gabriel Veyre (, 1935), (duration 7 mins) Certificate: 15 Record of an event at the Cinémathèque de Tanger last year, 12.30pm: 6/12 featuring the Master Musicians of Joujouka and a 12-foot Dream By Ahmed Bouanani (Morocco, 1968), (duration 18 mins) Machine manufactured in Morocco. Part of an ongoing project May – June 2012 through which Dawood is exploring the multiple influences which 1pm: Le Bled (Buildings in a Field) helped shape Gysin’s contraption, including Sufism and zoetropes. By Jem Cohen and Luc Sante (Morocco, 2009), (duration 13 mins) + Towers Open Fire Dir: Anthony Balch (UK, 1963), (duration 10 mins) 1.30pm: Mapping Journey #1 Certificate: 15 By Bouchra Khalili (, 2008), An attempt to recreate William Burroughs’ writing style on film, (duration 4 mins, 30 secs) using cut-ups, hand-painted film, multiple Dream Machines and narration by Burroughs himself. 2.30pm: Todos os llamáis Mohamed (You Are All Named Mohamed) By Max Lemcke (Spain, 1997), (duration 31 mins) 1pm: Live Dream Machine demonstration Developed by writer and artist Brion Gysin during his 1960s 3.15pm: Balcon Atlantico sojourn in Tangier, the Dream Machine is a tall perforated metal By Hicham Falah and Mohamed Chrif Tribak (Morocco, 2003), cylinder designed to be played on a record turntable at 78 rpm. At (duration 20 mins) the centre is a lightbulb, and when experienced with closed eyes the resulting flicker effect is designed to alter the brain’s electrical 4pm: Le Magicien oscillations. By Yto Barrada (duration 18 mins) 2.30pm: New Dream Machine Project Please see 19 May listings for full details of these films. Dir: Shezad Dawood (UK, 2011), (duration 15 mins) Certificate: 15

+ Towers Open Fire Dir: Anthony Balch (UK, 1963), (duration 10 mins) Certificate: 15

3.30pm: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (Ikhtifa’aat Soad Hosni Alt-thalathat) Dir: Rania Stephan (Lebanon, 2011), (duration 68 mins) Certificate: PG Cinémathèque de Tanger is aboard Slow Boat, moored on the In Arabic with English subtitles Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, Brindleyplace, outside the Rania Stephan’s documentary is an elegy to a rich era of film National Sea Life Centre. production in Egypt, seen through the work of one of its most revered actresses. Soad Hosni embodied the complexity of the Please note access to Slow Boat is via a high step. Children must modern Arab woman. Pieced together exclusively from archival be accompanied by an adult at all times. footage of her films, it tells the story of Hosni’s life up until her tragic end in 2001. Presented in collaboration with the Arab Film Yto Barrada’s exhibition RIFFS: Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2011 Festival, Liverpool and introduced by the Festival’s Director, Omar continues to 8 July 2012. Kholeif (Curator, FACT). Cinémathèque de Tanger Photograph by Sarah Keller Ikon Gallery 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS Open Tuesday – Sunday, 11am–6pm, free entry 0121 248 0708 / www.ikon-gallery.co.uk As part of Yto Barrada’s exhibition at Ikon and in collaboration with Birmingham’s independent Flatpack Festival, Slow Boat Ikon is supported by Arts Council England and Birmingham City opens as a floating cinematheque for three weekends during Council. Ikon Gallery Limited trading as Ikon. Registered charity May and June. Reflecting Barrada’s work as founding director no. 528892 of Cinémathèque de Tanger, a rich programme of films is presented by Flatpack and members of Ikon’s Youth Programme. Cinémathèque de Tanger is supported by Deutsche Bank. Slow Boat Connections are made between Birmingham and Tangier and is supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, British Waterways the film programme touches on issues surrounding migration and Sandwell Council. and exile, art and theft, and the shared experience of cinematic escape. In addition we also show a number of films specially chosen by Barrada for Cinémathèque de Tanger.

Moored in Brindleyplace, near the National Sea Life Centre, Cinémathèque de Tanger is a unique space to see films, drink mint tea and watch the world go by. These events are free but due to limited capacity booking is essential. Call Ikon on 0121 248 0708. Saturday 19 May, 12–5pm Sunday 20 May, 12–5pm Saturday 2 June, 12–5pm Sunday 3 June, 12–5pm Films selected by Yto Barrada Films selected by Yto Barrada Flatpack Festival: Family Day* Flatpack Festival: Underworld Tracing some of the clandestine links 12.15pm: Vues du Grand Socco et du Petit Socco (View of the Main 12.15pm: Vues du Grand Socco et du Petit Socco (View of the Main 12pm: Lotte Reiniger shorts between Europe and North Africa Square and the Small Square) Square and the Small Square) Dir: Lotte Reiniger, (duration approx 45 mins) By Gabriel Veyre (Morocco, 1935), (duration 7 mins) By Gabriel Veyre (Morocco, 1935), (duration 7 mins) Certificate: U A 1935 movie by Gabriel Veyre that encompasses the first moving, A selection of fairy tales recreated with scissors and card by a 12pm: I See the Stars at Noon colour pictures shot in the City of Tangier. 12.30pm: 6/12 pioneering German filmmaker. Dir: Saeed Taji Farouky (UK/Morocco, 2004), (duration 57 mins) By Ahmed Bouanani (Morocco, 1968), (duration 18 mins) Certificate: PG 12.30pm: 6/12 1pm: Lucky dip In Arabic with English subtitles By Ahmed Bouanani (Morocco, 1968), (duration 18 mins) 1pm: Le Bled (Buildings in a Field) Dir: Various, (duration approx 45 mins) Documentary following Abdelfattah, a young Moroccan man This film shows images throughout a city – moments – absence By Jem Cohen and Luc Sante (Morocco, 2009), Certificate: U attempting to enter Spain illegally via the Straits of Gibraltar. His and solitude of wet cobblestones at a dull party that has ended (duration 13 mins) Animated shorts from around the world including work by one of questioning of the director’s own motives makes for an unsettling suddenly – a gesture, a footstep – the sea or the silence – the Africa’s earliest filmmakers, Moustapha Alassane. and provocative film. silence or the cry – the waiting or the dread – sleep or insomnia 1.30pm: Mapping Journey #1 – a sign of light surges – a heart caught up between two digits, By Bouchra Khalili (France, 2008), 2pm: Lotte Reiniger shorts 1.15pm: Paul Axel Lund: Smiling Damned Villain our faces in the storm, the two white-hot figures carved on (duration 4 mins, 30 secs) Dir: Lotte Reiniger, (duration approx 45 mins) (duration 25 mins) foreheads, eyes, bodies spinning round like magnets in the storm. Certificate: U Short talk by Ian Francis (Director, Flatpack Festival) on Moseley- 2.30pm: Todos os llamáis Mohamed (You Are All Named Mohamed) born thief and smuggler Paul Axel Lund, who developed a 1pm: Le Bled (Buildings in a Field) By Max Lemcke (Spain, 1997), (duration 31 mins) 3pm: Lucky dip lucrative criminal career in Birmingham after the war. Eventually By Jem Cohen and Luc Sante (Morocco, 2009), Dir: Various, (duration approx 45 mins) he was forced to leave the UK, and ended his days running a bar in (duration 13 mins) Certificate: U Tangier where he is now buried. During his time in Morocco Lund This film was made with Tamaas, an international non-profit shared a house with William Burroughs, and some of his more arts organisation, as part of a project involving eight poets 4pm: Lotte Reiniger shorts colourful tales were used in Naked Lunch. and filmmakers from France, Lebanon, , Morocco and Dir: Lotte Reiniger, (duration approx 45 mins) the United States, who came to Tangier, Morocco. Four poet- Certificate: U 2pm: Pépé le Moko filmmaker pairs collaborated using Super 8 film and writing Dir: Julien Duvivier (France, 1937), (duration 94 mins) original text to create these experimental ‘film-poems’. The artists * These screenings are free, drop in on the day, capacity is limited. Certificate: PG took inspiration from the city of Tangier – its history, architecture, This programme is accompanied by an afternoon of free family In French and Arabic with English subtitles people, politics, as well as from each other. activities taking place at Ikon Gallery, 1–4pm. Atmospheric and hugely influential thriller, starring Jean Gabin as a gangster on the run in the labyrinthine Casbah district of Algiers. 1.30pm: Mapping Journey #1 By Bouchra Khalili (France, 2008), 4pm: I See the Stars at Noon (duration 4 mins, 30 secs) Dir: Saeed Taji Farouky (UK/Morocco, 2004), (duration 57 mins) The Mapping Journey Project (2008–2011) combines eight video works Certificate: PG drawing an alternative map of the Mediterranean area, spanning In Arabic with English subtitles Balcon Atlantico from Marseille to Ramallah, Ramallah to Bari, Bari to Rome, Rome to Barcelona, and Barcelona to Istanbul. Based on eight clandestine journeys, the project confronts singular minorities’ 3.15pm: Balcon Atlantico paths, revealing the underground and hidden geography that By Hicham Falah and Mohamed Chrif Tribak (Morocco, 2003), clandestine roads produces. Filmed in Marseille, Mapping Journey #1 (duration 20 mins) follows a young Algerian man on his illegal itinerary from Annaba to Marseilles, via Sardinia, Naples, Milan, Nice and .

2.30pm: Todos os llamáis Mohamed (You Are All Named Mohamed) By Max Lemcke (Spain, 1997), (duration 31 mins) Max Lemcke looks at an illegal Moroccan immigrant’s experience once he arrives in the ‘promised land’ of Spain. I See the Stars at Noon

3.15pm: Balcon Atlantico By Hicham Falah and Mohamed Chrif Tribak (Morocco, 2003), (duration 20 mins) A poetic elegy of the everyday, Balcon Atlantico films the boardwalk overlooking the Atlantic ocean in a small Moroccan seaport where people come to meet, dream, court, reflect, unburden themselves from worries of life, and bid farewell. From sunrise to sunset, the camera captures bits of conversations and confessions released into the open horizon and the myriad ways people say “I love you”, “it’s getting late” and “see you tomorrow”. Le Magicien

4pm: Le Magicien 4pm: Le Magicien By Yto Barrada (duration 18 mins) By Yto Barrada (duration 18 mins) “The hands of the magician are faster than the eyes of the spectator.” – Abdelouahid El Hamri, aka Sinbad of the Strait. This private display of illusions in the courtyard of Mr. El Hamri’s house in Tangier includes the apparition of ping-pong balls and white doves, swallowing razor blades, and an attempt to reproduce his difficult trick “How to Make a Chicken Go to Sleep (El sueno de un gallo).”