Friday 11 May 2007, 19.00

Reality Check is a selection of videos that restores everyday concerns often ignored during the trauma of a catastrophe: appetite and desire, love and seduction, socialising and gossip. The works investigate the intolerance, prejudice, despair, taboos, pain and fears inherent in human pleasure.


Akram Al-Ashqar, Red, Dead and Mediterranean, Palestine 2006, 1.32 min

Larissa Sansour, Land Confiscation Order 06/24/T, Palestine 2006, 10.45 min


Oreet Ashery, UK 2002, Why Do You Think I Left?, 10 min

Ahmed Khaled, 5th Pound, Egypt 2005, 14.11 min


Khalil Rabah, The Wall Zone Sales, Palestine 2004, 6.28 min

Vesna Milicevic, A Picture of Orient, Serbia 2007, 13.34


Nesrine Khodr & Ghassan Salhab, Lebanon/Senegal 1998, 32 min 


Mohammed Hammad, Call Centre, Egypt 2006, 17.28 min 



Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended