Experimental Documentary Program: Environs of Seeing
Tuesday, 28th October 2008
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, San Francisco, CA, United States
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Arab Film Festival - Nights and Days/ (Posthumous) / Merely a Smell / Roundabout / Chatila Experimental Documentary Program: Environs of Seeing
Nights and Days/ (Posthumous) / Merely a Smell / Roundabout / Chatila Merely a Smell
Dir. Maher Abi Samra / Lebanon / 2007 / 11min
In its haunting sequence of just a few shots, Merely a Smell stunningly evokes the assault on the senses brought by the war, as relief workers move the bodies of the dead.
Nights and Days
Dir. Lamia Joreige / Lebanon / 2007 / 17min
Alternating the experience of Beiruts bombardment with the contemplative journey to South Lebanon after the war, this extremely personal film investigates the gaps between the experience of war and our means of seeing, hearing, and representing it.
Posthumous)
Dir. Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon / 2007 / 28min This film-essay reflects on the conditions of the newly bombed remains in Beiruts suburbs.
Roundabout Chatila
Dir. Maher Abi Samra / Lebanon / 2005 / 50min
Shot within the confines of the Chatila refugee camp in Beirut, Maher Abi Samras long takes follow its residents constrained movement and stories of permanent exile.
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