AXIS OF LIGHT
Pia Getty Films Presents
AXIS OF LIGHT
8 ARTISTS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST
Featuring
Jananne Al-Ani
Ayman Baalbaki
Mona Saudi
Mona Hatoum
Etel Adnan
Rachid Koraïchi
Youssef Nabil
Shirin Neshat
Introduction by
Reem Al Faisal
Titles by
Golnaz Fathi
End Credits
Artists
Jananne Al-Ani
Ayman Baalbaki
Mona Saudi
Mona Hatoum
Etel Adnan
Rachid Koraïchi
Youssef Nabil
Shirin Neshat
Produced and Directed by
Pia Getty
Co-Director
Nichola Bruce
End Roller Credits
Executive Producer
Pia Getty
Creative Producer & Written by
Nichola Bruce
Associate Producer
Clare Dearnaley
Associate Directors
Zillah Bowes
Mark Carey
Edited by
Justinian Buckley
Music by
Harry Escott
Director of Photography
Zillah Bowes
Mark Carey
Additional Photography
Dustin Lynn
Sam Sharples
Piers Leigh
Additional Editing
Jerry Chater
Sound Designer
Gernot Fuhrmann
Sound Recordists
Andy Paddon-Smith
Philippe Ciompi
Henry Milliner
Lucy Pickering
Ian Currie
Researcher
Alana Pryce Tojcic
Asha Motee
Business and Legal Affairs
Christine Howard
Production Assistants
Simon Mills
Fionn Macgregor
Ariane Wolleb
Assistant to Mrs Getty
Kate Marchetti
Zoe Wilkinson
Music Recording and Mix Engineer
Ian Wood
Musicians
Persian Santur: Peyman Heydarian
Oud: Roskar Nasan
Piano and Cello: Harry Escott
Singers: Yasaman Kazemi & Mansour Izadpanah
Music Researcher
Lilly Ladjevardi
Titles Unit
Director of Photography: Mark Carey
Art Director: Sarah Kane
Props: Dan Gardner
Camera Assistant: Chris Dodds
Lighting Assistant: Ariane Wolleb
Lighting supplied by: Mark Carey & David Niblock
Sound Mixing by Goldcrest Post
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jamie Roden
Translation
The Word Store
Production Accountants
Alliots Accountancy
Jackie Withey
Mariana Hadzhieva
Post production services provided by Unit
Post Producer Alex Finch
Online editor Bryan Farrar
Smoke operator Nick John
Colourist Simon Astbury
Special Thanks to:
Anthony Wall
Ed Brennan (DFS)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Isabelle de la Bruyere
Saeb Eigner
Maryam Eisler
Simone Fattal, Post-Apollo Press
Tarane Ali Khan, The Third Line, Dubai
Frederic Lafargue
Zaha Hadid
Rob Humpage
Maryam Imani
Prof. Dr. Ziad Al-Sa'ad, Catreena Hamarneh, Khalil Hamdan,
Jordanian Department of Antiquities, Jordan
The Embassy of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, London
The Arab British Centre, London
Venetia Porter, Louisa Macmillan, The British Museum, London
Pedro Girao, Christie's, London
Stefani Crone, Jonathan Greet, October Gallery, London
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones, The Serpentine Gallery, London
Akiko Akizawa, Tate Modern, London
Jon Lowe, White Cube, London
VET Post Production, London
The Zenith Foundation, London
Daniela da Prato Gallery, Paris
Maxi Museum, Rome
Sascha Crasnow, Daniel Feinberg, Jeannie Freilich,
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Leila Heller Gallery, New York
Paige Gregor, Indiepix, New York
Kieran O'Mahoney
Sheika Lulu Al-Sabah
Michal Shabtay
John Williamson
Special thanks for inspiration
Father Carney Gavin, Archives for Historical Documentation
JANANNE AL-ANI
Copyright and images courtesy the artist
Shadow Sites I
(from The Aesthetics of Disappearance: A Land Without People)
Film Installation, 2010
Arts Council Collection, Southbank, London
She Said
Video Installation, 2000
Southern Steppe - Jordan
Prehistoric settlement
Film research
Shadow Sites II
(from The Aesthetics of Disappearance: A Land Without People)
Film Installation, 2011
Abraaj Capital Art Prize, 2011
AYMAN BAALBAKI
Copyright and images courtesy of the artist
Beirut after Israeli vacuum bombing, July 2006
Photograph by Frederic Lafargue
MONA SAUDI
Copyright and images courtesy the artist
Nymphaeum
Reproduced by the permission of the
Palestine Exploration Fund, London
All other photographs
Courtesy of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities
MONA HATOUM
Copyright and images courtesy of the artist
Impenetrable
Black finished steel and fishing wire, 2009
3-D Cities
Printed maps and wood, 2008-2009
Photos Kleinefenn
Interior Landscape
Installation, 2008
Photo Agostino Osio
Daybed and Paravent
Steel work, 2008
Daybed
Photos Jörg von Bruchhausen, 2008
Doormat II
Steel work, 2000 - 2001
Photo Oren Slor
Home
Installation, 1999
Footage courtesy Jon Lowe, White Cube, London
ETEL ADNAN
Copyright and images and all writings courtesy of the author/artist
Seasons
Journey to Mount Tamalpais
The Indian Never had a Horse
Book covers and images courtesy of Simone Fattal
for the Post-Apollo Press
Sitt Marie-Rose
Published by Tamyras
YOUSSEF NABIL
Copyright and images courtesy the artist
You Never Left
Film Installation & Exhibition, 2010
with
Fanny Ardant & Tahar Rahim
Music: "L'arbre qui voit"
Written by Anouar Brahem - ECM Records/Verlag GmbH, from album ECM 1792
Anouar Brahem, François Couturier, Jean-Louis Matinier:
Le pas du chat noir published by ECM GmbH, 2002
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Self Portrait as a Kid
Cairo, 2008
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Cinema - Self-Portrait
Florence, 2006
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The End
New York, 2007
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Beautiful
Florence, 2006
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Catherine Deneuve
Paris, 2010
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David Lynch
Paris, 2007
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Charlotte Rampling
Paris, 2011
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Rossy de Palma
Madrid, 2002
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Tracey Sleeping
London, 2006
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Self-Portrait
Beverly Hills, 2008
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Self-Portrait with Roots
Los Angeles, 2008
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Self-Portrait
Barfleur, 2005
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Self-Portrait, Next to the Fire
Paris, 2004
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I will go to Paradise
Self-Portrait, Hyères, 2008
RACHID KORAÏCHI
Copyright and images held by the artist
All images courtesy the artist, October Gallery, London
and The British Museum
A Nation in Exile - Hyme Gravé
Etching,1981
Rock Painting of decorated woman and children on cave
Tassili n'Ajjer, Unesco World Heritage Site, Algeria
Photo by: Ian Griffiths
Collection: Robert Harding World Imagery/Getty Images
Tassili rock painting, Algeria
Photo by: Jack Jackson
Collection: Robert Harding World Imagery/Getty Images
L'Enfant Jazz - (Mohammed Dib)
Unbound book,1998
2005, 0709,0.3 Brooke Sewell Permanent Fund,
Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum
Jardin d' Orient
Excerpt Rachid Koraïchi Archive, 2004
Copyright Rachid Koraïchi & Dominique Mohn
Rumi
Lithograph, 2009
Ibn Ata Allah Al Iskandari
Lithograph, 2009
Photos by Jonathan Greet
Abdelkader
Lithograph, 2008
The Path of Roses
Steel Sculpture, Porcelain Vessel
Hand woven linen and embroidery, 1995 - 2005
Rachid Koraïchi. The Path of Roses
filmed by Astrid Menze
© ikonoTV 2011
SHIRIN NESHAT
Copyright and images courtesy of Shirin Neshat and
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Rapture
Video/audio Installation, 1999
Music and Sound Designed
by Sussan Deyhim
Women of Allah Series
Faceless, 1994
Rebellious Silence, 1994
Speechless, 1996
Guardians of Revolution, 1994
Untitled, 1996
Untitled, 1994
Turbulent
Video/sound Installation, 1998
Music and Sound Designed by Sussan Deyhim
Women Without Men
provided by
Produceur: Essential Filmproduktion
Co-produceur: Co-op 99, Parisienne de Production
International Sales company: Coproduction Office
Thank you to all the artists, curators and contributors involved in
Axis of Light
Mohammed Afkhami, Hossein Amirsadeghi, Reza Aramesh, Kader Attia, Dia Al Azzawi,
Anthony Downey, Farboud Dowlatshahi, Hala Elkoussy, Reem Al Faisal, Susan Hefuna,
Hassan Hajjaj, Teraneh Hemami, Rose Issa, Nja Mahdaoui, John Martin, Moncef Msakni,
Mahmud Obaidi, Venetia Porter, Georges Rabbath, Steve Sabella, Faisal Samra,
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Hassan Sharif,
Abdul Raheem Sharif, Khaled Ben Slimane, Wijdan Ali
Axis of Light is a cross media project
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