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…
September 2023
Suneil Sanzgiri, Pegah Pasalar, Mounira Al Solh, Basma al-Sharif
EVERYWHERE WAS THE SAMEFeaturing Pegah Pasalar, Mounira Al Solh, Basma al-Sharif, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Mirene Arsanios In-person Sep 12, 2023 screening:at e-flux Screening Room at 7 pm ETScreening will be followed by a conversation with filmmakers Pegah Pasalar and Suneil Sanzgiri moderated by writer Mirene Arsanios.Address: 172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205Get Tickets here Online Screening:…
Mounira Al Solh
, 2019
, 43 min
The artist spent 24 hours with each of four women—Rogine, Waad, Hanin, and Zeina—in the cities where they now live: Zutphen, Oslo, Washington DC, and Sharjah respectively. All four of them cannot live anymore in their countries of origin, Syria and Lebanon. Together, they share a moment of cooking, rolling on the floors of their…
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…
