SS 23 / screenings, Workshop, discussions with Leil Zahra Mortada

In this hands-on production class we will approach research from a creative, playful and at times unorthodox angles; while we explore tools, best-practices, production processes and project development. We will engage with the works of artists and artist collectives who have used performance and time-based media as a tool for socio-political critique, and whose work is rooted in open-source research and disruptive interventions.

Leil Zahra Mortada is a transfeminist queer activist, researcher and artist/filmmaker, born in Beirut. Their film work includes the archival project “Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution”; and the awarded experimental short “Breakup in 9 Scenes”. Leil is behind the research project Sound Liberation Front, a music research project focusing on marginalized music and sound art from a decolonial and queer feminist perspectives. As a filmmaker, they recently produced “There is a Baba in Our House” a critical coming-of-age video on the performativity of nationalism and the blurred lines between the father/leader. Leil is a researcher and content developer on digital security, online privacy and open-source investigations. Their work has a major focus on queer and feminist politics, archiving, migration, nationalism,