As part of our program of discussions and exchanges, Rasha Salti and Koyo Kouoh present SAVING BRUCE LEE an introduction to their research project on the influence of the Soviet film education in the African and Arab cinema through the journeys of a dozen filmmakers from Africa and the Midle-East, including Sembene Ousmane, Abderrahmane Sissako, Souleymane Cissé among others. The lecture will discuss the academic canons and those of contemporary art for the study and presentation of films as works of art in the museum space. It will also explore how to reconcile the dissonance between oral histories and institutional archives. 

The lecture was introduced and moderated by Baba Diop, film critic.

A bout Rasha Salti

Rasha Salti is a curator and writer. She is presently an international programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival. From 2004 to 2010 she was the film programmer and creative director of ArteEast in New York. Salti’s essays have appeared in publications such as Afterall, The London Review of Books, and Naqd and she edited the publication Insights into Syrian Cinema: Essays and Conversations with Filmmakers (2006). Salti lives in Beirut and works between Paris, Berlin and Toronto.