Country: Qatar
Year: 2014
Duration: 5'
“Choque” is the word stamped on the shields Brazilian riot police brandish. Culled from footage of São Paulo FIFA protests in 2014 and footage shot in Doha the night the Qatar 2022 bid was won. Choques is an exercise in context removal.
Biography
film director
Sophia Al Maria
Sophia Al-Maria is an artist and writer currently based in London. Her memoir, The Girl Who Fell to Earth (Harper Collins, 2012), was published in Arabic by Bloomsbury Qatar in 2015. She is the recipient of a 2015 Sundance Institute Fellowship and her work is included in the New Museum Triennial, New York. In 2016, she will present her first solo museum show in the USA with the premiere of a new series of videos at the Whitney Museum in New York.
FILMOGRAFIA
Choques (cm, 2014).
Declaration
film director
“The night FIFA announced the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts, I was in my home town of Doha, Qatar. I went out into the streets to shoot. There was jubilation. The future for us very suddenly – If only momentarily – changed. Class, gender and other divides seemed suspended those hours after the announcement. But all the while I was aware of the encroaching darkness.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Sophia Al Maria
contatti/contacts
Anna Lena Vaney Film
annalenavaney@mac.com
www.annalenafilms.com
Sophia Al Maria
contatti/contacts
Anna Lena Vaney Film
annalenavaney@mac.com
www.annalenafilms.com
