- 1min, Lebanon, 2021
- Super 8mm, Stereo
- Arabic, English subtitles
Description
When the Beirut explosion occurred, my first thought was that of relief that my grandmother had passed a year and some before. The best hours to sit outside amongst her plants and flowers were those of sunsets. How does one mourn when they are grateful for the occurrence of some deaths as salvation? How does one mourn when in separation, we spare the ones we love the end of their world?
Screenings
2025
- EXPMTL (Curated by Benjamin R. Taylor) | Adelaide, Australia
- EXPMTL (Curated by Benjamin R. Taylor) | Perth, Australia
- EXPMTL (Curated by Benjamin R. Taylor) | Melbourne, Australia
- EXPMTL (Curated by Benjamin R. Taylor) | Sydney, Australia
2023
- 100-Second International Film Festival | Tehran, Iran
2022
- Black Cat Award International Film Festival | Bolivia
- Crossroads: Program 4 (Curated by Steve Polka) | San Francisco, USA
- Dresdner Schmalfilmtage | Dresden, Germany
2021
- Center of Oral History Montreal | Worldwide
- Non-Syntax Experimental Image Festival | Tokyo, Japan
2020
- “This Is Not Lebanon”: Film Programme, Sent from Elsewhere | Frankfurt, Germany
Press
“Quietly echoing CROSSROADS program 2, the films on this program explore elemental transubstantiations: air, fire, water and stone become one. Luminous and loving, life-affirming and elegiac. Meditations on the brevity of life, and on continuity, these works embody transformation and eternity. Melodramas of nature and contemplations of immateriality braid the intimate and introspective with the expansive and macrocosmic. FCROSSROADS 2022 — program 4 before you witnessed this entropy.