Pop Islam
APT8 Cinema
Collaborative project
'Pop Islam' is a cinema project reflecting on the ways Islam is lived and experienced throughout the contemporary world. The project covers a vast region — from Australia and South-East Asia to the Indian subcontinent, Central and West Asia and North Africa — and features works exploring the complexities of faith in both orthodox and secular states.
Khaled Sabsabi (Co-curator, 'Pop Islam')
Born 1965, Tripoli, Lebanon
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
Khaled Sabsabi, the co-curator of 'Pop Islam', is an Australian artist working in video and installation. Since the late 1980s he has engaged communities to develop projects that reflect the complex nature of culture and identity in particular, the global connections between people and places facilitated by history, migration and technology.
Production still from Television 2012 / Director: Mostofa Sarwar Farooki / Image courtesy: The artist and Pascale Ramonda, Paris / © The artists
List of works
CHAPTER 1: THE MESSAGE
Ar-risâlah (The Message) 1976 | Dir. Moustapha Akkad
Muhammad: The Messenger of God 2015 | Dir. Majid Majidi
CHAPTER 2: A DOOR TO THE SKY
Le Grand Voyage 2004 | Dir. Ismaël Ferroukhi
Rindu Kami Padamu (Of Love and Eggs) 2004 | Dir. Garin Nugroho
Beş Vakit (Times and Winds) 2006 | Dir. Reha Erdem
Takva (Takva: A Man's Fear of God) 2006 | Dir. Özer Kiziltan
Halal Mate 2007 | Dir. David Batty, Claudia Rowe
Keshtzarhaye sepid (The White Meadows) 2009 | Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
Bal (Honey) 2010 | Dir. Semih Kaplanoğlu
Na putu (On the Path) 2010 | Dir. Jasmila Žbanić
Adaminte Makan Abu (Abu, Son of Adam) 2011 | Dir. Salim Ahamed
Qurban (Sacrifice) 2011 | Dir. Anar Abbasov
Qiyamah (The Reckoning) 2012 | Dir. Gutierrez Mangansakan II
Hams al moodun (Whispers of the Cities) 2013 | Dir. Kasim Abid
Chilla (40 Days of Silence) 2014 | Dir. Saodat Ismailova
Nabat 2014 | Dir. Elchin Musaoglu
A Sinner in Mecca 2015 Dir. Parvez Sharma
Torsions II 2015 | Dir. Omar Chowdhury
CHAPTER 3: AMONG THE BELIEVERS
La battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers) 1966 | Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel 2003 | Dir. Michel Khleifi, Eyal Sivan
Marmoulak (The Lizard) 2004 | Dir. Kamal Tabrizi
Hamburger Lektionen (Hamburg Lectures) 2006 | Dir. Romuald Karmakar
Ea'adat khalk (Recycle) 2007 | Dir. Mahmoud Al Massad
The Green Wave 2010 | Dir. Ali Samadi Ahadi
Les chevaux de Dieu (Horses of God) 2012 | Dir. Nabil Ayouch
Karama Has No Walls 2012 | Dir. Sara Ishaq
Mata tertutup (The Blindfold) 2012 | Dir. Garin Nugroho
Al midan (The Square) 2013 | Dir. Jehane Noujaim
Iranien (Iranian) 2014 | Dir. Mehran Tamadon
Timbuktu 2014 | Dir. Abderrahmane Sissako
Among The Believers 2015 | Dir. Hemal Trivedi, Mohammed Naqvi
Locus, Mosque 2015 | Dir. Omar Chowdhury
CHAPTER 4: AGAINST THE GRAIN
Lalsalu (A Tree Without Roots) 2001 | Dir. Tanvir Mokammel
Roozi ke zan shodam (The Day I Became a Woman) 2000 | Dir. Marziyeh Meshkini
Panj é asr (At Five in the Afternoon) 2003 | Dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
Moolaadé 2004 | Dir. Ousmane Sembène
Dunia (Kiss Me Not on the Eyes) 2005 | Dir. Jocelyne Saab
Offside 2005 | Dir. Jafar Panahi
Persepolis 2007 | Dir. Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Adhen (Dernier Maquis) 2008 | Dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Ayat-Ayat Cinta (Verses of Love) 2008 | Dir. Hanung Bramantyo
Muallaf (The Convert) 2008 | Dir. Yasmin Ahmad
Afghan Star 2009 | Dir. Havana Marking
New Muslim Cool 2009 | Dir. Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
My Name is Khan 2010 | Dir. Karan Johar
Shahada 2010 | Dir. Burhan Qurbani
The Taqwacores 2010 | Dir. Eyad Zahra
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (A Separation) 2011 | Dir. Asghar Farhadi
Ni Allah, Ni Maïtre! (Neither Allah, Nor Master!) 2011 | Dir. Nadia El Fani
Television 2012 | Dir. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Wadjda 2012 | Dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour
Snow in Paradise 2014 | Dir. Andrew Hulme
