Filmography : Dalia Al Kury
Like most of us Nayef has a mobile. ( Jan, 2004)
5 minutes. Documentary
JVC mini DV camera
AFC productions
Synopsis:
A documentary about an urban shepherd, whose presence with his herd in western Amman highlights the prevalent visual contrast between tradition and modernity, offering a refreshing outlook on shepherds in the 21st century.
Made in China (June, 2004)
3 minutes. Video Art
JVC mini DV Camera
AFC productions
Synopsis:
A sensual journey of the fifth sense and its relationship to consumer culture.
Arab terrorist management camp (August,2004)
9.20 minutes. Mockumentary
JVC mini DV Camera
AFC productions
Synopsis:
When terrorism becomes even more closely linked to Arabs and Islam, a terror prevention rehabilitation camp known as the (Arab Terrorist Management Camp) is designed to help potential Arab terrorists overcome their terrorist tendencies. The film starts off in a documentary fashion but slowly takes the shape of an infomercial mocking the capitalization on "terrorism”.
Arabizi (June,2005)
25 minutes. Documentary
multiple DV cameras
Synopsis
Arabizi is the pop word for the language that consists of Arabic and English mixed together. With Arabizi becoming a more visible phenomenon amongst young affluent people in Jordan, the purity of the Arabic language is at stake. Latent tension and controversy between the various opinions is causing a few concerned heads to pause at the question: do we start to worry about preserving our language, and why?
Naher ( July,2005)
5 minutes. Drama
Sony PD170- DVCAM
Synopsis
Thinking about a sinful act over and over, repressing it and abstaining from it yet still desiring it, can be more “sinful” that committing the deed for a few seconds.
Caution! Comment Ahead ( May,2006)
35 min. Documentary
Sony PD 170-DVCAM 2006
Synopsis
Why are so many men ready to verbally harass women on the streets? What is going through their heads? The director travels the bumpy roads of Amman to highlight the social, psychological and moral complexity which happen to normalize this daily practiced phenomenon.
Beautiful Boy
1.5 minute. Video art
Sony PD 170 2006
Part of Femlink’s “fragility” project
by filming my bed, i tried to portray an intimate relationship between myself and my beloved Adam whom i lost to the highest form of fragility : sudden death.
Arabizi 101
53 min. Documentary
Sony PD170-DV CAM 2006
03 Production-MBC
By following a character from Jordan, Egypt, and Kuwait, this film explores why arabizi is becoming a more widespread linguistic phenomenon in the Middle East. The film features academics that explain the phenomenon from different perspectives critiquing this hybrid language and the identity it generates. The film tries to empower the arabizi speakers who believe that they have no choice but to speak that way and offers them a challenge that suggests that indeed they do have a choice.
Our Kuffiyyah in London
5 min. Documentary- Jan, 2007
Sony PD 170 and still photography
By secretly snapping photos of Londoners wearing the popular Palestinian scarf, the “Kuffiyyah”, the filmmaker is left wondering about how her Palestinian grandparents would react if they can witness their scarf’s ironic commercial appeal.
A recycled love story
28 min Documentary- May, 2007
Sony PD 170
One of those many British protesters dancing on the streets for “peace in the Middle East “ is Clemmie James. But Is Clemmie idealistic because she’s young? A whimsical portrait documentary of an imaginative British woman exploring her unlimited possibilities in alternative London. Clemmie turns this intimidating city into a cozy village where everyone on the street is a potential friend invited to her many circles. -Except maybe her father, who doesn’t like circles much, nor holding people’s hands and singing. Clemmie’s ‘holistic binge’ is an appetizing one, especially for the romantic in us.
The Kiss: Suspended
2 min- Video Art 2007
Sony PD 170
Part of Femlink “preoccupation” Project
“The kiss” by Gustav Klimt has been promoted as a romantic painting of a man and a woman kissing on a bed of flowers. The viewers’ eye is often misguided by the kiss and hardly is it noticeable that the lady is clutching her feet so as not to fall off the cliff. My personal failed romance is what preoccupies me. I’m preoccupied with whether I should walk away before my fall, or enjoy the kiss while it lasts.
Smile! You are in South Lebanon
53 minutes- Documentary 2008
Sony PD-170
While the politicians of the world are focused on saving Lebanon from a potential civil war and a reoccurring failed elections, the filmmaker goes on a family visit to south Lebanon and focuses the lens on her animated uncle Rami, who would much rather swim, little Mariam who is learning how to walk and Ali, the courageous farmer, who is giving his banana tree a Cesarean Section. The result is an intimate and vibrant family portrait, which represents the potency of the Lebanese dark humor—a talent that has helped them cope with wars still fresh in memory.
