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Tilimsānī, Kāmil

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Personal name headingTilimsānī, Kāmil
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Variant(s)Al-Tlemceni, Kamel
At-Talʹmasani, Kamilʹ
El Telmesani, Kamel
El Telmessani, Kamel
El-Telmissany, Kamel
Talʹmasani, Kamilʹ
Telmesani, Kamel El
Telmessani, Kamel El
Telmissany, Kamel el-
Tilmisānī, Kāmil
Tlemceni, Kamel
تلمساني، كامل
Associated countryEgypt Lebanon
Birth date1915
Death date1972-03-01
Place of birthQalyūbīyah (Egypt)
Place of deathBeirut (Lebanon)
AffiliationStudio Masr (Firm)
Art and Freedom Group (Egypt)
Profession or occupationArtists Painters Motion picture producers and directors
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inSafīr Amrīkā bi-al-alwān al-ṭabīʻīyah, 1957: t.p. (Kāmil al-Tilmisānī)
Amerikanskie filʹmy glazami egipti︠a︡n, 1961: t.p. (Kamilʹ At-Talʹmasani)
Wikipedia, May 4, 2021 (Kamel el-Telmissany; born Qalyubiyya, Egypt, 1915; died Beirut, Lebanon, March 1, 1972; a founding member of the Cairo-based Art et Liberté (Art and Liberty) group; studied for 5 years but did not graduate from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, left in 1941 because of his interest in the arts; painted in surrealist style for a decade, then turned to filmmaking, as a medium for spreading Marxist ideologies; directed anti-capitalist film 'Al-Souq Al-Sawda' (The Black Market), 1945; wrote Dear Charlie, a book dedicated to the genius of Charlie Chaplin; his brother, Hassan el-Telmissany (also an artist and member of the Art and Liberty Group), was also involved with cinema, specifically documentary filmmaking)
JSTOR, Hollywood quarterley, vol. 4, no. 3, spring 1950, El-Mazzaoui, Farid. Film in Egypt, viewed May 4, 2021: page 247 (Kamel El Telmessani, The Black Market (1946))
Barjeel Art Foundation website, May 4, 2021 (Kamel El Telmesani)
Saudi 24 news (website), "The journey of Kamel Tlemceni"... the reasons for the transformation of one of the symbols of Egyptian surrealism from plastic art to cinema, January 13 2021, viewed May 4, 2021 (recently published book, The journey of Kamel al-Tlemceni... the surreal in the face of reality; the three brothers, Kamel, Hassan and Abdelkader, in artistic life and in the vanguards of socialist movements 1940s-1980s; Kamel Tlemceni's role at the forefront of the plastic movement in art and criticism, 1940s, in Egyptian realism in cinema, and then as artistic advisor to Fayrouz and the Rahbani brothers [in Lebanon]; Kamel Al-Tlemceni worked as a storyboard painter in Studio Misr before going with his art completely to cinema)
Associated languageara