Film premiere: "#After Lockdown - Very Short Stories about Enduring a Global Pandemic"

Date: 

Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 8:30pm to 9:30pm

Location: 

Online (link below)

The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University & The Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University are pleased to announce the premiere of the short film they co-produced during summer 2020:

#AFTER LOCKDOWN: VERY SHORT STORIES ABOUT ENDURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC

After Lockdown posterA short film designed by MR. SEBS

Co-produced by: The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, The Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University

Featuring stories by: Mouhanad Al Rifay, Layla Arsi, Leila Ben Gacem, Rania Benromdhane, Florencia Cambiaso, David Collery, Cathryn Drake, Helene E., Jasser Hammami, Alexandros Kyriakidis, Panagiota Mela, Daniele Nunziata, Stavroula Papadopoulou, Manuela Pellegrino, Yannis Phillis, Nikoletta Tsitsanoudis-Mallidis, Souhir Zekri-Masson, Habib and Rym.

This film will be premiered as part of  24 Hours of HarvardWorldwide Week at Harvard 2020.

Watch the premiere of #After Lockdown here: https://worldwide.harvard.edu/24hh-24-hours-harvard.

Save the following dates:

FILM-PREMIERE: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 // 8:30-9:30 PM (EDT)
8:30PM Boston-time // October 81:30AM Tunis-time // October 83:30AM Athens-time
Watch here: https://worldwide.harvard.edu/24hh-24-hours-harvard

FILM-DISCUSSION: Friday, October 9, 2020 // 12:00-1:30 PM (EDT)
12:00PM Boston-time // 5:00PM Tunis-time // 7:00 PM Athens-time
Register: https://bit.ly/3l2790H.

Join the discussion with the film directors, participants, producers and crew: Mohamad SalehCo-Director and Writer, Mr. Sebs, Daniel Salgado, Co-Director and Animator, Mr. Sebs; and Lauren MontagueAdministrative Director, CMES; Sihem LamineAdministrative & Program Manager, CMES Tunisia; Christos GiannopoulosManaging Director, CHS Greece; Evangelos KatsarelisPrograms and Events Manager, CHS Greece; Nicolas PrevelakisLecturer on Social Studies, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, and Assistant Director of Curricular Development, CHS US, Harvard University.

About the film: #After Lockdown is a 50-minute animated film presenting individual stories about living through the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic in different places in the world. Students and professors, but also contributors from outside the academic community, recorded themselves narrating their personal experiences with lockdown, travel-restrictions, switch to new forms of education, displacement, isolation, job-loss, and more broadly, adapting their life to the new circumstances imposed on them, and on their communities. The oral testimonials featured in the film were collected and selected jointly by Harvard University’s Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, during the summer of 2020. Podcast curation and video animations are designed by Mr. Sebs, an animation studio co-directed by a Harvard CMES alum.

#After Lockdown is a combination of narrations grouped together and illustrated, to form a collective scrapbook, made to document a moment of change, to be passed-on to future generations and to our future selves.

Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about digital access, please contact cmes_tunisia@fas.harvard.edu or chsnafplion@chs.harvard.edu in advance of the session. Please note that we will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability.

For all questions, contact: cmes_tunisia@fas.harvard.edu or chsnafplion@chs.harvard.edu.