Roaming like desert animals, we understand it’s enough to find a few leaves or drops to slip past another day
Roaming like desert animals, we understand it’s enough to find a few leaves or drops to slip past another day is a film screening program featuring artworks selected by Los Angeles-based artist Samar Al Summary, whose exhibition, Excavating the Sky, is currently on view in ICA LA’s Project Room. The program brings together work by artists from across the Middle East and North Africa who, like Al Summary, embrace the medium of film as a form of documentation, resistance, remembering, and imagination and a tool by which to cross the boundaries and borders that might otherwise keep us apart. Featured artists include: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Basma Al Sharif, Samar Al Summary, Ali Eyal, Layth Kareem, Jumana Manna and Anhar Salem with Ansam Salem and Doody.
Films will be screened on loop throughout the day from 11am to 5pm, no RSVP required. Starting at 6pm, the final run of films will be presented followed by a conversation between Al Summary and ICA LA Senior Curator, Amanda Sroka.
RSVP for 6pm screening and conversation required. Limited capacity.
This offsite program is presented with Now Instant (939 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012).
11AM—5PM: Looped film screenings
6PM—9PM: Full film program followed by an Art Talk with artist Samar Al Summary and Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator, ICA LA
9PM—11PM: Reception
Now Instant is a cinema and bookstore in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Founded in 2018, Now Instant organizes public screenings, readings, performances, and events, with a focus on moving image work.
