2025
TAVROS, ATHENS: I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theatre — a month-long Shasha Movies film season
BFI, LONDON: Jocelyne Saab Mini Retrospective
MATTER & SHAPE, PARIS: Shasha Movies film screening
2024
B7L9, TUNIS: PALESTINIAN ARTIST FILMS, SCREENING THROUGHOUT RAMADAN
SHANE AKEROYD COLLECTION, ONLINE: LANDSCAPE STUDIES [LYDIA OURAHMANE AND MAEVE BRENNAN]
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY: ASSIA DJEBAR SCREENING & TALK WITH ZINEB SEDIRA AT CINE LUMIERE
ICA, LONDON: LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (LSFF) SHASHA MOVIES PROGRAMME, PALESTINIAN ARTIST FILM.
IRISH FILM INSTITUTE, DUBLIN: PALESTINIAN ARTIST FILMS
2023
CURATOR OF ‘AROUND SOUND’ AT LISSON GALLERY, LONDON
Including commissioning and curating three new performances with Eve Stainton and Lola de La Mata, Tsunaina and Maxwell Sterling, and CKTRL. Alongside the premiere of these performances, Tapponi also organised two talks with Es Devlin and Simon Parris, and a listening session with Oliver Leith.
CURATOR OF ‘CHOREOMANIA’ AT LISSON GALLERY, LONDON
Including commissioning and curating two new performances, with Kenichi Iwana and Naima Karlsson, and Yagamoto and Xiaoqiao.
52 WALKER ST, DAVID ZWIRNER, NEW YORK: INDUSTRIAL VIDEOTAPE, A FILM PROGRAMME OF HISTORICAL FASHION ADVERTISEMENTS MADE BY ARTISTS.
MOMA PS1, NEW YORK: JAMIL MCGINNIS COMMUNITY FILM SCREENING, WITH Q&A HOSTED BY MELISSA LYDE/ALFREDA’S CINEMA
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, NEW YORK: RESISTING PARADISE, FUNDRAISER FOR PALESTINE, WITH FILMS BY BARBARA HAMMER AND NOUR OUAYDA
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, NEW YORK: HERE/ELSEWHERE: JEAN-LUC GODARD, MOHANAD YAQUBI AND MONA HATOUM, WITH BIDOUN MAGAZINE, TRAMPS AND ARTISTS AGAINST APARTHEID
SEMIOTEXT(E) AND OCTO PRODUCTIONS, MARSEILLE: BASED ON, IF ANY (2023) FILM SCREENING AND TALK WITH STEPHANIE LA CAVA
ICA, LONDON: SCREEN PRACTICES WEEKEND TAKEOVER, WITH SCREENINGS, TALKS AND A PARTY
FRIEZE NO.9 CORK STREET, LONDON: WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT, FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH DILARA FINDIKOGLU, BENGI UNSAL AND SELVI AKYILDIZ
FRIEZE NO.9 CORK STREET, LONDON: REVOLT AGAINST THE SUN, FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH MARWAN KAABOUR AND ALVARO BARRINGTON
METROGRAPH, NYC: SHASHA MOVIES PRESENTS: VALENTIN NOUJAIM
FILM FORUM, NYC: MARYAM TOUZANI’S THE BLUE CAFTAN
THE STATION, BAGHDAD: REVOLT AGAINST THE SUN PROGRAMME
LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA, DUBLIN: SHASHA MOVIES PROGRAMME
CINEMATHEQUE DE TANGER, TANGIER: ALAA MANSOUR ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
LE 18, MARRAKESH: REVOLT AGAINST THE SUN PROGRAMME
LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: HIJRA PROGRAMME
BIOS CINEMA, ATHENS: REVOLT AGAINST THE SUN PROGRAMME, WITH HOT WHEELS ATHENS
THE GARDEN CINEMA, LONDON: YOU RESEMBLE ME, WITH MODERN FILMS AND WILLA PRODUCTIONS
THE GARDEN CINEMA, LONDON: WINNERS, WITH MODERN FILMS
2022
GUEST CURATOR OF SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (SGIFF)
HEAD JUROR OF THE SHEIKH SAOUD AL THANI PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
E-FLUX CINEMA, NYC: SHASHA FILM CLUB, IZZA GÉNINI
LE 18, MARRAKESH: SHASHA FILM CLUB, IZZA GÉNINI
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, NYC: LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX
GIRLS IN FILM FESTIVAL, LONDON: EMERGING SWANA MOVING-IMAGE ARTISTS
THE STATION, BAGHDAD AND MOSUL: IRAQI CINEMA FROM THE MARSHES
SHANGHART GALLERY, SINGAPORE: SHASHA FILM CLUB
THE ACADEMY, HOLLYWOOD: IRANIAN NEW WAVE
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, NYC: ARCHIVE FEVER: WOMEN’S REVOLUTIONARY CINEMA FROM SWANA
KUNSTNERNES HUS KINO, OSLO: ALAA MANSOUR AND BAHAR NOORIZADEH
ACE HOTEL, NYC: SHASHA FILM CLUB, MED HONDO
VCUQATAR, QATAR: THE GULF METAVERSE 2.0
THE AFRICA INSTITUTE, UAE: AFRO-ARAB CINEMA
CULTURE SUMMIT, ABU DHABI: CINEMA ON CINEMA
PROGRAMME CONSULTANT AT SHEFFIELD DOC FEST
2021
EXHIBITION: MAAT, LISBON: X NÃO É UM PAÍS PEQUENO, SIX MONTH VIDEO EXHIBITION COMMISIONED BY ART JAMEEL
EXHIBITION: CASA ARABE, MADRID: FOREIGN OFFICE: BOUCHRA KHALILI SOLO EXHIBITION
GASWORKS, LONDON: NOSFERATU: ANYAB (1981)
MOMA, NYC: HABIBI COLLECTIVE PRESENTS
CASTLE CINEMA, LONDON: HABIBI COLLECTIVE: FILM COLLECTIVES AND POLITICAL LIBERATION IN THE UK
SOURA FILM FESTIVAL, BERLIN: ARCHIVAL STRAND: ANYAB (1981)
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA: DEEP-THROAT DRIVE-IN
PRIZREN, KOSOVO: MILITANT WOMEN’S CINEMA FROM SWANA
FUNDRAISER: CHISENHALE GALLERY, LONDON: DAR JACIR FUNDRAISER: LETTER TO A FRIEND (2019)
FUNDRAISER: FORMA HQ, LONDON: CINEMA OF THE PFU: THEY DO NOT EXIST (1974), ASWAT FUNDRAISER
2020
SHARJAH ART FOUNDATION, UAE: SWANA WOMEN IN FOCUS
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: ORAL HISTORIES OF SWANA WOMEN’S CINEMA
CURZON SOHO, LONDON: UK PREMIERE OF BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW (2019)
ARAB FESTIVAL, WASHINGTON: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S SWANA CINEMA
MALMÖ, SWEDEN: EXPERIMENTAL SUDANESE FILM FESTIVAL
FUNDRAISER: 24HR ARTIST LIVESTREAM FOR BEIRUT
RIO CINEMA, LONDON: PU$$Y HARAM FOR SEX AND RAGE FESTIVAL
MOSAIC ROOMS, LONDON: SUDANESE WOMEN’S CINEMA
MOTH CLUB, LONDON: STORIES OF CLIMATE MIGRATION WITH IT’S FREEZING IN LA!
BOMB FACTORY ART FOUNDATION, LONDON: LEBANESE WOMEN’S CINEMA
2019
4:3 BOILER ROOM, LONDON: FATIMA’S LETTER (1992)
NOVA GORICA, SLOVENIA: SWANA WOMEN’S ESSAY FILM
GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY, UK: BECOMING AN ARCHIVE
CATFORD MEWS CINEMA LONDON: BRITISH/ARAB WOMEN’S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA