August 2021
Carol Mansour, Charbel Samuel Aoun, Wael Noureddine, Ali Cherri
Marking the one-year anniversary of the devastating Beirut blast, this program of films and videos from Lebanese artists and filmmakers conveys their direct experience assimilating the overwhelming experience of loss and trauma. Two of the works are a response to the Beirut blast, which shook the city on August 4, 2020, while the other two…
Ali Cherri
, 2007
, 12 min
Can we construct war experience narratives without any “war” images? Filmed in 2006 during the July War between Lebanon and Israel, Slippage is an attempt to escape the feeling of imprisonment, to another space and time. Trying to take possession again of our lives, just like Ilya Kabakov’s “Man Who Flew into Space from his…