Dire Straits, a video program on contested territorial waters curated by Sandra Skurvida as part of the ongoing series – at http://importexportkassel.de/program/ in Kassel, Germany, August 7, 9:30 PM until midnight.

The screening begins with a musical overture – Symphony of Sirens by Arseny Avraamov (Baku, 1922), and continues to explore borderlines, limbos, impasses, crossings, and passages in video works by Nooshin Farhid, Uriel Orlow, Anahita Hekmat, Sherko Abbas, Pedram Baldari, and Barbad Golshiri.