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…
Charbel Samuel Aoun
, 2021
, 5 min
“The Heap” synopsis: After the Beirut Blast a new body emerged in the city, rubble. A mixture of destructed materials in the social space blocked streets and sidewalks and gave form to the remaining social effect of the catastrophe. “The Heap” is an act of a breath seeking the value of decomposition, questioning the destruction as a way for…
