Shezad Dawood “Trailer” at Art In General, New York

Shezad Dawood, Trailer, Production Still, 2011. Courtesy of UBIK Productions Ltd. Photography: Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz

Shezad Dawood
Trailer
26 January – 23 March 2013
at Art In General, New York

Curated by Anne Barlow

Trailer, 2011, presents an alternative edit from Shezad Dawood’s science-fiction feature film Piercing Brightness as a 15-minute, experimental “trailer”. As a recognized cinematic format, Trailer belies its own title, playing with typical expectations of the duration and role of a trailer in relation to a full-length film.

Using science fiction as a genre through which to examine subjects such as race, migration and cultural displacement in ways that mainstream culture often cannot, Dawood creates a complex narrative that blends fiction with various aspects of documentary filmmaking. Incorporating seven main characters and four languages (Arabic, English, Mandarin, and Urdu) – one of them adapted by Dawood to represent an ‘alien language’ – the film encompasses a variety of scenes and visual effects, combining socio-political commentary with the fantastical and bizarre. [read the full text here]

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Shezad Dawood, Trailer, Production Still, 2011. Courtesy of UBIK Productions Ltd. Photography: Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz