A lunch for the elderly and other goings on at UC’s SOFA Gallery

Published by the Communications and Development Department

 

1 September 2004

 

A British filmmaker who outraged some members of the British arts community by declaring that she would probably spend a £24,000 arts prize on a deposit for a house, is to make her New Zealand debut at the University of Canterbury’s SOFA Gallery.

 

Rosalind Nashashibi, who has said in the past that she is fascinated by “non-events”, became the first woman to win the coveted Becks Futures Award last year for four 16 millimetre films with a common theme of cultural displacement.

 

On September 8, an exhibition of five Nashashibi films will open at the School of Fine Arts (SOFA) Gallery, at Christchurch’s Arts Centre.

 

Four of the five films observe people in their everyday situations from a café in Omaha Nebraska (Midwest), a barber’s shop in the no-man’s land between East Jerusalem and the West Bank (Dahiet al Bareed), a Salvation Army lunch for the elderly in Edinburgh (Blood and Fire) and a family home in a town in central Israel populated by Palestinians (Hareash House). The fifth film (Humaniora) focuses on the grim exterior of public hospitals in Glasgow and Northern England.

 

The exhibition will run until October 10.

 

 

For further information please contact:

John MacDonald
Communications Manager
University of Canterbury

Tel: +64-3-364 2910
Fax: +64-3-364 2679
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john.macdonald@canterbury.ac.nz