Tariq Hashim
Encyclopedia
Tariq Hashim is an Iraq
i filmmaker who was born in Baghdad
, 1960. He studied theatre
and film
in Baghdad
, Copenhagen
and Bulgaria
and he returns to an Iraq
, full-fledged into war, after 23 years of exile. He tapes 16 hours of film leading to the movie 16 hours in Baghdad (2004). The film reveals the multi layered social landscape of Baghdad today. The film won the Golden Hawk Award at the 4th Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam, 2004.
His film "www.gilgamesh.21" (2007) won the Silver Hawk Award at the 7th Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam, 2007. It is about two men communicating through webcams between Copenhagen and Baghdad, trying to virtually rehearse for a Gilgamesh play while sharing their own unhappiness,one at being stranded inside his crumbling country, the other at being stranded outside of it.
In addition to film making, his taltent expands to theatre, painting, photography & music.
Tariq Hashim is based in Copenhagen.
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i filmmaker who was born in Baghdad
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
, 1960. He studied theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
in Baghdad
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
, Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
and Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
and he returns to an Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, full-fledged into war, after 23 years of exile. He tapes 16 hours of film leading to the movie 16 hours in Baghdad (2004). The film reveals the multi layered social landscape of Baghdad today. The film won the Golden Hawk Award at the 4th Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam, 2004.
His film "www.gilgamesh.21" (2007) won the Silver Hawk Award at the 7th Arab Film Festival in Rotterdam, 2007. It is about two men communicating through webcams between Copenhagen and Baghdad, trying to virtually rehearse for a Gilgamesh play while sharing their own unhappiness,one at being stranded inside his crumbling country, the other at being stranded outside of it.
In addition to film making, his taltent expands to theatre, painting, photography & music.
Tariq Hashim is based in Copenhagen.