Rolla Tahir: I’ve Heard the Bedouins Singing smoking.apples Curated by Lesley Loksi Chan 🕤 May 5 – June 30, 2023 🕤 Reception: Friday, May 12, 7–10PM In Rolla Tahir’s debut solo exhibition, I’ve Heard the Bedouins Singing, she departs from her moving-image practice to create a suite of handwoven works made from celluloid and wool, merging her personal connections to filmmaking and the textile techniques of tatreez and Al Sadu. Born in Kuwait to Sudanese parents, Rolla Tahir is a filmmaker and director of photography currently based in Toronto. She’s lensed short, narrative and experimental films, which screened across Canada and internationally, including the UK, the United States and Guatemala. Obsessed with the durability, longevity and spontaneity of the analog film medium, Tahir has worked with Super 8, 16mm and 35mm to explore the analog process and its possibilities. Tahir’s short experimental film “Sira” was selected to screen at the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival ...