ADORNMENT | ARTIFACT : TRANSCENDENCE This film explores the idea of Transcendence through art-making featuring studio visits with LA-based artists Natou Fall, Kori Newkirk and Samira Idroos. Their works were included in the Adornment Artifact exhibits celebrating ancient Nubia through contemporary art, events, and conversations throughout five sites across the city including Transformative Arts and The Getty Villa. Curated by jill moniz and generously supported by The Vera R. Campbell Foundation.
Producers jill moniz, Susu Attar
Director / Producer / Camera Moni Vargas
DP / Camera / Editor Michael Vargas
Audio Justin Asher, Mario Torres Torres
Production Assistants Howard Johnson, Terrell Carr
Artwork courtesy of: jill moniz, Natou Fall, Kori Newkirk, Samira Idroos
A Friends We Love / Transformative Arts Production © 2024 All Rights Reserved
BELONGING
A short film for Belmar History + Art
Unhurried and timeless, a couple travels between ocean and house, spirit and flesh. They embody hope and loss through postures of emergence and erasure. This visual journey stages the body as an archive of past, present and future. It is a reclamation for Black families who built and lost their homes by the sea. It is a conjuring of memory, of futures dreams.
Embodiment: Marjani Forté-Saunders, Everett Saunders & Everett Nkosi Zaire Saunders @7nms_
Producer/Creative Director: April Banks @aprilbanks_art
Director/DP/Editor: Wesam Nassar @wesam_the
Choreography/Music: d. Sabela Grimes @yameansupreme
Camera Operators: Gary Wright and Anaka Morris @4n4k4
Producer/Art Director: Susu Attar @susuhantusu
BTS Photography: Chinwe Okona @chinweokona
Filmed at Bay Street Beach, also known as The Inkwell, A Resurrection in Four Stanzas art sculpture and Palisades Beach. Funded by Santa Monica Cultural Affairs and Mezostudio.
"Close My Eyes" is a lyrical / visual reflection on immigration, fatherhood, mortality, Syria, America & Mother Nature.
Lyrics / Vocals :: Omar Offendum
Instrumental Beat :: Sandhill
Bass :: Mark Haynes
Qanun :: Sarouna
Mix :: Prof. H
Music Video Credits ::
Executive Producer :: Omar Offendum
Written / Directed / Produced / Edited :: Wesam Nassar
Art Director :: Susu Attar
Art & Makeup :: Armee Jacob
Colorist :: Chrystel Elias & Belal Hibri
(LUCID) Camera Operators :: Steve Miles & Fiorella Occhipinti
Camera Assistants :: Emma Massalone & Gary Wright
Grip :: Moses Navarro
Sound :: Alrick Bainton
Title Logo Design :: Qasim Arif
Special Thanks to :: LACMA, Aziz Farms, Maece Sirafi, Keelan Overton, Meleni Smith, Steve Miles, Papi Peña The Roumani Family, The Ghandour Family, The Nassar Family, The Chakaki Family, Mt Washington, Echo Park, the Coachella Valley, Palm Trees and the City of Los Angeles.
EL KHATEEB A Collaboration with Mashrou’ Leila From belly dancers to crimes of passion, El Khateeb is short music film that pays homage to the golden age of Egyptian cinema.
Written and Produced by Hala Alsalman
Produced and Directed by Wesam Nassar
Production Design by Susu Attar and Samira Idroos
Starring:
Deana Nassar
Shadi Elkarra
Wesam Nassar
Hadil Attar
Music Provided by:
Mashrou' Leila
Omar Khorshid