Walid Raad
, 2001
, 16 min
Synopsis:Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English Version) is an experimental documentary about “The Western Hostage Crisis.” The crisis refers to the abduction and detention of Westerners like Terry Anderson, and Terry Waite in Lebanon in the 80s and early 90s by “Islamic militants.” This episode directly and indirectly consumed Lebanese, U.S., French, and British political and public…
Jayce Salloum
, 49 min
Synopsis: This film at the most fundamental level, a personal project; i) examining the use and production of images/representations of Lebanon and Beirut both in the West and in Lebanon itself, ii) recording the interactions and experiences while working in Lebanon, focusing on the undertaking of this representational process as a Lebanese and a westernized, foreign-born…
Mohamed Soueid
, 2000
, 70 min
Synopsis: In 1975, a group of young Lebanese men joined the Palestinian organization “Fateh”. Known as the “Student Brigade”, they participated in the Lebanese Civil War. Some of them were killed, others left the country. Following the Israeli invasion in 1982, Palestinian armed forces left Lebanon. The “Student Brigade” dissoluted and the young Lebanese fighters have…
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…
Carol Mansour
, 2020
, 17 min
Shattered: Beirut 6:07 synopsis: Two months after the massive explosion that devastated Beirut, the inhabitants of the city are still reeling from the force of the blast and the accumulated evil they have been subjected to for decades. Carol Mansour explored her city in the aftermath of the blast, talking to friends and exchanging reflections on…
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…
Wael Noureddine
, 2006
, 35 min
July Trip synopsis: Beirut, July 2006. The Israeli bombings strike the city. While Beirut is still on fire, the filmmaker starts a journey across his natal land. The film is not a documentary – although the images are burning real – but an essay. Using two complementary techniques, the 16 mm film and HDV, the artist…
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…
