Eye International Conference 2026
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Monday, June 1
10:05 – 11:05 (CET)

Contextualising Beyond Screenings:

Collected Histories

• Hind Mezaina

• Jasmine Soliman

Collected Histories: Personal Archives and Documentation is a project that combines public film screenings with talks and workshops,
co-founded by Hind Mezaina and Jasmine Soliman. It is born out of Mezaina’s art practice, film curation and personal archiving and Soliman’s work in archival collections manage­ ment, and inspired by self-published Internet Archive projects. Its aim is to foster discussions on personal documentation and archiving in the United Arab Emirates, with an ultimate goal of inspiring and supporting individuals to become ‘citizen archivists’ by cataloguing, and exploring ways to self-publish and preserve personal collections, and to have discussions about the complexities of communities and belonging. Another objective is to dispel academic or art institutional language that is associated with the topic of archives, and to make it feel more accessi­ ble to individuals and to expand their knowledge of a wider range of films that aren’t normally programmed in our local cinemas or art institutions.