RETROVIZOR AT CITY OF WOMEN
˝When I first received an invitation
to curate a video programme for the 12th International Festival of
Contemporary Arts – City of Women, I felt that I would be expected to present
works dealing with the current crisis in Lebanon. But I decided not to. The
wars in Lebanon
are like a necklace of beads that have different shapes and colours; we are now
experiencing another war but it is all the same war, and we are just living
different variations of it. It never stopped. It never stops. It feels as if it
is embedded in our lives, at some points dormant, at others destructively
active. It’s as if we exist in the shadow of a volcano, and every so often it
has to erupt and destroy in order for us to begin living again. The videos I am
presenting were made before the onset of the current crisis, but they are never
far from it.˝ (Christine Tohme)
Retrovizor: a surprise film
screening
Retrovizor is a non-profit utopian
cinema. It screens a variety of films from various periods, and its objective
remains to explore and provide insight into the invisible cultures of moving
images.
Waël Noureddine
Ça sera beau: From Beirut with Love
Lina Saneh
I Had a Dream, Mom...
Curator of Lebanese video
program: Christine Tohme
Organisation: City of Women, Retrovizor
In collaboration with: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts-Ashkal Alwan, Klub Gromka/AKC
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