Ghassan Halwani
, 2018
, 76 min
Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed the kidnapping of a man I know. He has disappeared since. Ten years ago, I caught a glimpse of his face while walking in the street, but I wasn’t sure it was him. Parts of his face were torn off, but his features had remained unchanged since the incident. Yet something was…
Ahmad Ghossein
, 2011
, 32 min
Maream is the mother of four kids. Her husband Rachid worked abroad for more than 10 years. From 1978 -1988, she corresponded with her husband by sending cassettes with people traveling. The cassettes provide intimate and personal details of how a relationship evolves between a couple through the passing of time, and also how a…
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…
Hind Shoufani
, 2015
, 120 min
Trip Along Exodus is a film/poem that recreates the last 70 years of Palestinian and Arab politics seen through the prism of the life of the filmmaker’s father, Dr. Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, an academic and leftist intellectual who was one of the instigators of the opposition to Arafat within Fatah…
April 2024
Ammar Obeid, Reem Al-Ghazz, Wael Kadlo, Yazan Rabee
REVOLUTION OF THE WIND …
Wael Kadlo
, 64 min
Through his quest to better understand the shredded state of his family, Wael questions the long-lasting socio-political crisis in Syria. In 1980, I was born in Syria coinciding with the launch of a project aiming to build an international highway only a few meters away from my house – a bridge that would separate the…
January 2024
İz Öztat, Ra, Şükran Moral, Deniz Pasha, Ardıl Yalınkılıç, Nadir Sönmez, Akram Zaatari
SELF-ORIENTATIONS Online Screening: January 11-21, 2024RSVP at artearchive.orgFree / $5 suggested donation In-person Screening: Saturday, January 13 at 3:00pmKatarina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Lenfest Center for the Arts615 West 129th Street, NY NY 10027 To register for the in-person screening please use the link:https://www.showclix.com/event/self-orientations SELF-ORIENTATIONS brings together artists from Turkey and Lebanon whose moving image works incorporate queer & feminist…
Akram Zaatari
, 2012
In 1998, Zaatari interviewed Egyptian photographer Van Leo in Cairo. In 2001 he made the video Her + Him VAN LEO and based it on the story of a woman who once entered Studio Van Leo and asked the artist to take pictures of her naked. At the time, Zaatari had access to a few of the…
Moritz Frischkorn
This September, ArteEast’s Artist Spotlight series features interviews with artists who collaborated on PORT FICTION, a web-based audiovisual documentary project dealing with the relation of Beirut and Hamburg. Explore the project at www.portfiction.com. PORT FICTION is the work of Myriam Boulos, Moritz Frischkorn, Robin Hinsch, Ibrahim Nehme, Siska, Nour Sokhon and Kolja Warnecke. This fall, the…
