Tripoli Cancelled

“The artist, who continues to ask what it means to be a willing or accidental witness to key episodes of modernity ... [presents a work that] considers another form of alienation at an airport. It is based on a real incident, when the artist’s father was stranded inside Athens airport. His confinement is a metonym for suspension outside national borders, and the uncertainty of what awaits. The film builds a choreography of estrangement through daily routines marked by humor, resilient imagination, and affect.” (Natasha Ginwala, documenta 14: Daybook)

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Naeem Mohaiemen

Script: Naeem Mohaiemen

Cinematography: Petros Nousias

Editing: Naeem Mohaiemen

Music: Qasim Naqvi

Actors: Vassilis Koukalani

Production: Commissioned by documenta 14

Producers: Maria-Thalia Carras, Naeem Mohaiemen

Color: Color

Production Country: Greece, Germany, UK

Production Year: 2017

Duration: 95ʹ

Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen is a historian and visual artist working in Dhaka and New York. He uses film, photography, mixed media sculptures, and essays to research borders, wars, and belonging. Project themes have been described as “revolutionary past meaningful in the sudden eruption of a revolutionary present” (Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Bidoun), “ultimately more illuminating than Jacques Ranciere’s microscopic examinations of the utopian kernels” (Ben Davis, ArtNet), and “ever on the verge of collapsing into abstraction, their materiality performs the indeterminacy of the event they record” (Sarinah Masukor, West Space). Naeem is also a Ph.D. student in Historical Anthropology at Columbia University, and a 2014-2015 Guggenheim Fellow (film).