Rania Stephan

Rania Stephan is an artist and filmmaker. Her films and creative documentaries give a personal perspective on political events. By using archival material as still and moving images, her work investigates memory and its workings. A selection of her films are Memories for a Private Eye (2015), The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011), Lebanon/War (2006), train-trains 1 (Where’s the Track?) (1999) and Tribe (1993). Recent exhibitions include Never let me go, Alt Art Space, Istanbul (2016), On Never Being Simply One, Marfa Gallery, Beirut (2016), Parle pour toi, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (2014) and The Three Disappearances for Soad Hosni, MoMA PS1, New York (2011).

After the Wildly Improbable

Why Are We Here Now?

Trains in the Past, Tracks in the Present

Rania Stephan: Train-Trains: A Bypass, film
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity, lecture
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train, lecture
Priya Basil & Sinan Antoon: Steel That Bites the Earth: The Logic of the Track, staged literary reading
- After the Wildly Improbable -

Sep 15, 2017

Why Are We Here Now?

Postwar Landscapes

Karrabing Film Collective: Night Time Go, film
Shahram Khosravi: Along the Rails with Travelers without Papers, lecture
Samuel Merrill: Ghost Stations, lecture
Rania Stephan: Train-Trains: Where’s the Track?, film
- After the Wildly Improbable -

Sep 15, 2017