The Curfew Lookbook: A screening with Shehrezad Maher
In partnership with Twelve Gates Arts and part of the Community of Images exhibition, the screening and artist talk The Curfew Lookbook with Shehrezad Maher will be presented on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Twelve Gates Arts, 106 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA.
Join us for a discussion about the making process of Maher’s film, The Curfew, a narrative short script that won the Islamic Scholarship Fund’s National Film Grant and the Davey Foundation film grant. Maher will share her experiences in making narrative films and have a conversation about the storyboard, lookbook, mood board, short clips, stills, and BTS photos as well as host a screening of excerpts and segments from her previous films.
Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, Shehrezad Maher has screened her films at institutions and festivals such as Visions du Réel, RIDM, the LA Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives, UnionDocs, and Experiments in Cinema. She was awarded a 2023 Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and won the 2023 Islamic Scholarship Fund’s National Film Grant for her narrative short script, “The Curfew.” Her feature film script, “Theory of Colors,” was one of the three projects selected for the 2023 HamptonsFilm Screenwriters Lab and received the Melissa Mathison Screenwriters Fund and the Cinestory Feature Retreat’s Hagan Hicks Underrepresented Women’s Voices Scholarship. Her work has been reviewed by publications such as Sight & Sound, Afterimage, POV Magazine, and Scroll, among others. She studied visual arts at Bennington College and earned an MFA from Yale University, where she was awarded the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize.
This program is co-presented by Twelve Gates Arts , Collaborative Cataloging Japan and the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia. Major support for Community of Images exhibition has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Toshiba International Foundation, Pola Art Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Twelve Gates Arts, established in 2011, is a non-profit organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The "gates" refer to the fortified gates that walled many ancient cities such as Delhi, Lahore, Jerusalem, and Rhodes - inside which lay the heart of each city's art and culture, and today this reference offers perspectives on history and possibilities.
community of images: Japanese moving image artists in the uS, 1960s - 1970s
Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s will be an exhibition of experimental moving images created by Japanese artists in the U.S. during the 1960s and 70s, an area that has fallen in the fissure between American and Japanese archival priorities. Following JASGP's Re:imagining Recovery Project and its mission to support and engage diverse audiences through Japanese arts and culture in collaboration with local organizations, this project aims to discover, preserve, and present film and video works and performance footage by Japanese filmmakers and artists to the wider public.
We have partnered with the University of the Arts, and will present this exhibition at the Philadelphia Arts Alliance in June - August 2024.
The project and its online programming is generously supported by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage & the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Toshiba International Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ Preserving Diverse Cultures grant.