Jalal Toufic

Jalal Toufic is a Lebanese artist, filmmaker and author of [http://www.amazon.com/dp/094299647X Undying Love, or Love Dies] , born to an Iraqi father and a Palestinian mother. [ [http://www.jalaltoufic.com/undyinglove.htm JalalToufic.com - Publications ] ] [ [http://www.stationhill.org/toufic.html Station Hill Authors - Jalal Toufic ] ] He has lived in Lebanon for about 17 years, and his work often reflects his heritage, one of the world's most destroyed two peoples.

He is currently a professor at the Open Heart University in Lebanon. Jalal teaches dense theoretical classes and has trouble understanding why his students expect him to learn something by attending his classes.

Jalal Toufic is a writer, thinker, and artist. He is the author of Distracted (Station Hill, 1991; 2nd ed., Tuumba, 2003), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (Station Hill, 1993; 2nd ed., Post Apollo, 2003), Over-Sensitivity (Sun & Moon, 1996), Forthcoming (Atelos, 2000), Undying Love, or Love Dies (Post Apollo, 2002), Two or Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You (Post Apollo, 2005), and Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins (Forthcoming Books, 2005). His videos and mixed-media works, which include Credits Included: A Video in Red and Green (1995), The Sleep of Reason: This Blood Spilled in My Veins (2002), ‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins (2002), Saving Face (2003), I Am the Martyr Comrade Jamâl Sâtî (2003), This Is Not to Say that This Is Not the Case (2004), A Special Effect Termed “Time”; or, Filming Death at Work (2005), The Lamentations Series: The Ninth Night and Day (2005), Mother and Son; or, That Obscure Object of Desire (Scenes from an Anamorphic Double Feature) (2006), The Dual-Use Memorial (2007), and Lebanese Performance Art; Circle: Ecstatic; Class: Marginalized; Excerpt 3 (2007), have been presented in such venues as Artists Space, New York; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Witte de With, Rotterdam; ICA, London; YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens; and the 16th International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA), in a “Focus Jalal Toufic” program. He co-edited the special Discourse issue Gilles Deleuze: A Reason to Believe in this World, and edited the special Discourse issues Middle Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee and Mortals to Death as well as the Review of Photographic Memory (Arab Image Foundation, 2004). Toufic has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, USC, DasArts and the Rijksakademie. In 2002, he established the MA program in Film/Video Studies at Holy Spirit University, Lebanon, which he headed until August 2007. He moved in September 2007 to Istanbul, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Communication Design at Kadir Has University. http://www.jalaltoufic.com.

Bibliography

* "‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins" (2005)
* "Two or Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You" (2005)
* "Undying Love, or Love Dies" (2002)
* "Forthcoming" (2000)
* "Over-Sensitivity" (1996)
* "(Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film" (2003)
* "Distracted" (2003)

References

External links

* [http://www.jalaltoufic.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0869502/ Jalal Toufic] at IMDB
* [http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2001fall/toufic.shtml Interview with Jalal Toufic]