Editing Jalal Toufic

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}}'''Jalal Toufic''' is a Lebanese artist, filmmaker, and author.

== Biography ==
'''Jalal Toufic''' is a Lebanese artist, filmmaker, and author of various publications. He was born in 1962 in Beirut. His father was an Iraqi and hid mom was a Palestinian. He has lived in Lebanon for 17 years.

== Education ==

* PhD from Northwestern University
* MA from New York University
* BA from American University of Beirut)

== Books ==

* Radical Closure. Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2020
* Postscripts. Stockholm: Moderna Museet; Amsterdam: Roma Publications, 2020
* What Was I Thinking? Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2017
* The Dancer's Two Bodies. Sharjah, UAE: Sharjah Art Foundation, 2015
* Forthcoming, 2nd ed. Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2014
* What Were You Thinking? Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD, 2011
* The Portrait of the Pubescent Girl: A Rite of Non-Passage. Forthcoming Books, 2011
* What Is the Sum of Recurrently? Istanbul, Turkey: Galeri Nev, 2010
* Graziella: The Corrected Edition. Forthcoming Books, 2009
* Over-Sensitivity, 2nd ed. Forthcoming Books, 2009
* The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster. Forthcoming Books, 2009
* Undeserving Lebanon. Forthcoming Books, 2007
* Two or Three Things I'm Dying to Tell You. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 2005
* [[ASHURA: THIS BLOOD SPILLED IN MY VEINS|‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins. Beirut, Lebanon: Forthcoming Books, 2005]]
* (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film, revised and expanded edition. Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 2003
* Distracted, 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 2003
* Undying Love, or Love Dies, Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 2002

== Lectures ==

* "The Auto-Mobility of the Inanimate in Dance with Jalal Toufic," in "Listening, Seeing, Writing, Moving: HWP 2016-17 Course Module I," Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, November 16, 2016.
* "Conversation with Jalal Toufic & Hito Steyerl," part of "Hito Steyerl: Junktime," Home Workspace Program 2013-14, Ashkal Alwan, April 16, 2014.
* Lecture and book Launch of What Was I Thinking? (Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2017), followed by a conversation with artist Walid Raad, e-flux, New York, February 28, 2018: Soundcloud / e-flux podcast.
* Boiler Room Lecture: Jalal Toufic, "Which Is the More Difficult in the Christian Era: to Resurrect or to Bury?" Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, August 11, 2015.
* "An Outstanding–and Still Crazy–Task: Transforming Ourselves into Gods," Transformation Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, 18 October 2015.

== Videos ==

* The Matrix for Radical Simulationists (aka How to Read The Matrix as a Cypher), film, 72 hours and 36 minutes, 2018.
* The Matrix for Realists (aka Reviewing The Matrix in Terms of One Cypher), film, 50 hours and 48 minutes, 2018.
* The Matrix for Realists (aka Reviewing The Matrix in Terms of One Cypher)—A Timesaving, Perception-Taxing Version, film, 138 minutes, 2018.
* Vertiginous Variations on Vertigo, film, 110 minutes, 2016.
* An Indefinite Visit to Hong Kong, Solaris (in collaboration with Graziella Rizkallah Toufic), video, 19 minutes, 2016.
* Victoria Rizkallah; or, The Sticking Out Hair (in collaboration with Graziella Rizkallah Toufic), video, 4 minutes, 2014.

* Ah Istanbul (in collaboration with Graziella Rizkallah Toufic), video, 20 minutes, 2013.
* Variations on Guilt and Innocence in 39 Steps, 75 minutes, 2013.
* Attempt 137 to Map the Drive (in collaboration with video maker Graziella Rizkallah Toufic), 7 minutes, 2011.
* Lebanese Performance Art; Circle: Ecstatic; Class: Marginalized; Excerpt 3, 5 minutes, 2007.
* Mother and Son; or, That Obscure Object of Desire (Scenes from an Anamorphic Double Feature), 41 minutes, 2006.
* A Special Effect Termed “Time”; or, Filming Death at Work, 32 minutes, 2005.
* The Lamentations Series: The Ninth Night and Day, 60 minutes, 2005.
* Saving Face, 8 minutes, 2003.
* The Sleep of Reason: This Blood Spilled in My Veins, 32 minutes, 2002.
* ‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins, 78 minutes, 2002.
* Phantom Beirut: A Tribute to Ghassan Salhab, 15 minutes, 2002.
* Credits Included: A Video in Red and Green, 46 minutes, 1995.

== Sources ==

* [https://artsbu.hkbu.edu.hk/about-us/our-community-of-teachers-and-researchers/prof-jalal-toufic Jalal Toufic's personal website]

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