Marwa Arsanios
, 2009
, 12 min
This video, which includes 2D animation, brings together different stories about the chalet Raja Saab, a 1950’s experimental architecture, attempting to investigate and re-stage the disappearance of a dancer from the Crazy Horse Saloon in Beirut. It is part of the research on Acapulco, a once very hip beach resort situated in the southern outskirts…
, 2008
, 5 min
Built by Polish architect Karol Schayer in 1957, the iconic Carlton Hotel was, in its time, a popular meeting place for gay men in Beirut. Between 1973 and 1993, the hotel was also the setting of three murders that might or might not have been related to sexual encounters. Among the victims of these (probably) passionate…
September 2022
Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, Jumana Manna, Christian Ghazi
SOCIAL STUDIES features works by Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, Christian Ghazi & Jumana Manna. This program presents Christian Ghazi’s 1969 film A Hundred Faces for a Single Day in conversation with three films from Lebanon and Palestine made between 2008 and 2016. Ghazi’s avant-garde cinematic manifesto captures a society at the cusp between Lebanon’s so-called Golden Age and…
July 2022
Marwa Arsanios, Ahmad Ghossein, Ghassan Halwani
This selection of films draws from ArteEast’s ArteArchive to explore the notion of absence–that which is erased, missing or forgotten–as a central theme in the works of Lebanese filmmakers Marwa Arsanios, Ahmad Ghossein, and Ghassan Halwani Both Marwa Arsanios and Ghassan Halwani use animation as a means to render that which is invisible visible, while Halwani also uses…
