PROLOGUE
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day 2022, we present the program of the PROLOG festival ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS [June 2023].
During the Prologue we will try to answer one of the burning questions: What can art and activism do in the light of human rights violations today?
We will talk with guest artists and activists from Iran, Russia, Israel and America with whom we share the same feeling that the situation on the world level is frightening and that we need to react urgently. Emergencies require quick, effective intervention to overcome a critical situation. In our case, dealing with art, we will try not only to contemplate and talk, but to offer all our resources and strength to actively participate together in the resistance against injustice, against war and the entire passivated state of the human spirit. In light of that, we want to offer another narrative, to illuminate and show what we can still do, what artists have been doing on the world stage for years, and that what they do and how it makes sense, works and provides hope.
PROGRAM
STANDING UP FOR ANOTHER IS A FIGHT FOR OURSELVES
UK STEAMSHIP
16.00–20.00
Installation "Cardiophone" - Moran Duvshani, Israel
Private listening to the melody of your heart. This participatory work combines a medical device and a music box and welcomes one visitor at a time. You are invited to a three-stage journey that begins with an EKG test and ends with listening to a unique melody created by your own heart.
Moran Duvshani (Israel) is a multidisciplinary artist who works in visual theater and performance. She was born in Kibbutz Barkai in Israel in 1984. She graduated from the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem in 2013 and was awarded the Mayor's Award for Outstanding Work. She is the winner of the Excellence Award of the Jerusalem Foundation (2011). Today, Moran is an independent artist, performer and art consultant. Her works have been presented abroad at festivals in Cyprus, Estonia, Austria, Germany, Latvia and Iceland. In Israel, her work can be seen in numerous museums, theaters and galleries, including the Museum of Islamic Art, Tmuna Theatre, Train Theatre, Miklat 209, HaHanut Theatre, Performance Art Arena, Celims Center for Choreography and Dance and Gaza 13 Gallery.
20.00
Film "Understanding Women's Activism in Iran Through Film", Mashad Afshar, Iran/Great Britain
The conversation with the author after the screening is moderated by Dijana Milošević, DAH Theater, Serbia
Mashhad Afstar (Iran) is an award-winning director and producer who lives in London. Multidisciplinary in education, Afshar graduated from the London Film School in Filmmaking/Directing in 2014, and pursued her research interests with a PhD in Film Studies at Kingston University (2021), London. Afshar co-directed her debut feature-length documentary "Cul-de-sac" (2010), which received a great response in the international press and media. It was shown at twenty-three international film festivals, as well as at Amnesty International and many other organizations for human and women's rights. Her most recent project, the documentary and film essay "Women on Both Sides of the Camera" (2020), was in the official selection of ReadingFilmFEST 2021 in Pennsylvania, as well as the Imagine This Women's International Film Festival in New York, and won the award for Best Film on Women and Women's Issues at the Museum Talkies 2021 International Film Festival in India.
