99 Canal Street
New York City
Friday, September 26th at 7pm

Bidoun and 99 Canal are pleased to present a special screening of Pacific Club, filmmaker Valentin Noujaim’s 2022 film about a little-known Paris nightclub that catered to a mostly young, mostly Arab clientele during the 1980s. Set against the backdrop of racism, a heroin epidemic, and the emerging AIDS crisis, Pacific Club is the first in a trilogy of films orbiting around the Parisian business district known as La Défense and its unlikely postcolonial histories. Noujaïm’s experimental documentary splices together digital renderings of the venue and its music with reminisces by one club habitue who survived the period.

The screening will be followed by a discussion between Noujaim, writer and curator Adam HajYahia, and writer Perwana Nazif as well as a celebration of Interzone, a monograph published in conjunction with the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition, earlier this year at Kunsthalle Basel. The monograph features a text by Nazif and an introduction by Mohamed Almusibli.