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International Video Art Forum in Saudi Arabia Receives 127 Artistic Works from 41 Countries

The selection and judging committee is reviewing the submissions to determine which works will be showcased and compete. SPA
The selection and judging committee is reviewing the submissions to determine which works will be showcased and compete. SPA
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International Video Art Forum in Saudi Arabia Receives 127 Artistic Works from 41 Countries

The selection and judging committee is reviewing the submissions to determine which works will be showcased and compete. SPA
The selection and judging committee is reviewing the submissions to determine which works will be showcased and compete. SPA

The sixth edition of the International Video Art Forum, organized by the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts in Dammam in collaboration with the Cinema Association, has closed registration for its exhibition and competition.
Supervisor general of the forum and Director of the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts in Dammam Yousif Al-Harbi announced that the forum received 127 artistic submissions from 41 countries, with 104 selected for exhibition in the Kingdom.
Al-Harbi explained that the selection and judging committee is reviewing the submissions to determine which works will be showcased and compete.
Al-Harbi added that the forum, held under the slogan "Imagination Embodied, Reality Transformed," will launch its first artistic workshop on November 26 at the Cinema Association headquarters in Khobar. He highlighted the success of the forum's previous five editions, which presented contemporary visual art experiences utilizing advanced technologies.
He noted that earlier editions attracted over 823 works of art from more than 70 countries and featured 31 specialized seminars and workshops.

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Law and Disorder as Thai Police Station Comes under Monkey Attack

The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP/File
The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP/File
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Law and Disorder as Thai Police Station Comes under Monkey Attack

The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP/File
The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP/File

Police in central Thailand said they barricaded themselves into their own station over the weekend, after a menacing mob of 200 escaped monkeys ran riot on the town.
The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population and authorities have built special enclosures to contain groups of the unruly residents.
But on Saturday around 200 of the primates broke out and rampaged through town, with one posse descending on a local police station.
"We've had to make sure doors and windows are closed to prevent them from entering the building for food," police captain Somchai Seedee told AFP on Monday.
He was concerned the marauders could destroy property including police documents, he added.
Traffic cops and officers on guard duty were being called in to fend off the visitors, the Lopburi police said on Facebook on Sunday.
Around a dozen of the intruders were still perched proudly on the roof of the police station on Monday, photos from local media showed.
Down in the streets, hapless police and local authorities were working to round up rogue individuals, luring them away from residential areas with food.
While Thailand is an overwhelmingly Buddhist nation, it has long assimilated Hindu traditions and lore from its pre-Buddhist era.
As a result monkeys are afforded a special place in Thai hearts thanks to the heroic Hindu monkey Hanuman, who helped Rama rescue his beloved wife Sita from the clutches of an evil demon king.
Thousands of the fearless primates rule the streets around the Pra Prang Sam Yod temple in the center of Lopburi.
The town has been laying on an annual feast of fruit for its population of macaques since the late 1980s, part religious tradition and part tourist attraction.
But their growing numbers, vandalism and mob fights have made an uneasy coexistence with their human neighbors almost intolerable.
Lopburi authorities have tried quelling instances of human-macaque clashes with sterilization and relocation programs.