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Images, posters, tickets and chairs show the effects of cinemas across the UAE, but they have been removed to give the public a new look. These collections belong to Emirati artist Ammar Al Attar on Sunday night, titled "Cinema in the United Arab Emirates" in the project area of New York University in Abu Dhabi. Al Attar said in his interview with Al Bayan: The collection dates back to the sixties and seventies of the last century. Several sources aimed to document the culture and evolution of cinema over time.
Cinematographic practices
Al Attar is going instead to anonymous stories and novels, forgotten by the ritual of attending movies in UAE galleries, cultural practices concerning the film industry and the rites of the day. watch movies at local galleries. "I took chairs from movie theaters, Cinema Plaza" or later renamed "Golden Cinema", which built a "supermarket" or other cinemas that were distributed throughout the United Arab Emirates. "They also collected old" tickets "for the films presented at that time.
In the exhibition, which attracts visitors to independent cinemas built in the late seventies of the last century and presents a number of films from Bangladesh, Egypt, Hollywood, India, and more. India, Lebanon, Pakistan and other countries. Al-Attar showed pictures of several of them, such as El Dorado, the last cinema to have been kidnapped in Abu Dhabi.
The documentation
Al-Attar said: I have started collecting these collections since 2012. Thanks to these posters and advertisements distributed manually, I made sure to document official and unofficial information. Such as the shipping receipts and postal documents of some famous movies from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Hollywood. "Or from old display equipment, such as a slide projector and other glass slides, used to advertise public rules and behaviors or to advertise to local businesses. In this way, Attar is caught in those memories that almost escape with the new form of cinemas and the direction of new options, as he explained: television series and websites, which are becoming popular.
The movie posters depict the age of artists, most of whom do not die, or screens and posters from the movie "The Girl of the Show", presented at Kloba and Buster's cinema, "Madzouchour" in Granada, among others.
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