Videos from Beirut

Akram Zaatari is a video artist, curator and co-creator of The Arab Image Foundation. (www.fai.org.lb). He lives and works in Beirut.

From the beginning of the 1990es in Lebanon and until now, a new generation of moviemakers has grown forth. To begin with the video artists produced their movies on very low budgets and with small production units. The lack of a film tradition in Lebanon provided freedom come to experimenting with the expression of the video, not as a replacement for cinema, but as a medium of its own. The program screened in Landmark presented works from dedicated artists whose work are anchored within a large range of art directions and disciplines, including visual art, theatre and music.

The works presented were:

my body alive, mybody dead by Ghassan Slahab, 2003

Red Chewing Gum by Akram Zaatari, 2000

January 10th by Nabil Kojok, 2002

Replay (bis) by Lamia Joreige, 2002

Face A/Face B by Rabih Mroueh, 2002

Munzer by Samar Kanafani, 2003

Pink White Green Black Noise/Silence insinuated by Roy Samaha, 2003

Source: BIT Teatergarasjen, spring program 2004. 06.12.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/