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Videos
The Last of Beirut
2006(silent video) The Last of Beirut weaves together text and image to construct a contemplative vision of displacement and loss on the eve of civil war in Lebanon in 1975. A confabulation of voices, alternating between that of children and parents, contrasts the naïve, often reckless response of youth to its surroundings with the anxiety of parenting in a country moving rapidly towards self-destruction. The images, which depict the days leading up to evacuation, are presented both in whole and in detail. The use of detail and close-cropped framing creates an impressionistic, barely-recollected account of the events, emphasizing the fragmentary, subjective nature of recollection and memory.
Added on: July 17, 2019
decima campesina (excerpt)
In this silent video, text from a love letter is juxtaposed with photographs taken by my father in June 1991 in Kuwait, in the aftermath of the Gulf War. The images depict what he there encountered: carnage, oil rigs still afire after the bombings, and other scenes of devastation and abandonment along Highway 80, the road between Kuwait and Basra – a.k.a. ‘The Highway of Death’. The filmic relationship between image and text unfolds in the style of a payada, a sung duel of improvised décimas.Added on: July 28, 2021
‘The Happy Man’ … or so I have heard myself called. Chapter V (excerpt)
2015In Part V of The Happy Man…or so I have heard myself called, British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor Harold Pinter (1930–2008) responds to a question posed to him in a 2001 interview in The Progressive, conducted by Anne-Marie Cusac: "Did anything happen to you early on that changed your life?"
Added on: August 25, 2022