The Other Orange
Director: Hassan Choubassi
2006 23 min
 
...a video that documents Beirut from a distance of another city, Amsterdam. The physical and social existence and the political and cultural clashes, under circumstances of urban melancholy/ solitude, in a city with a continuous heed about its image. It is an ever-changing space where the physical intersects with the social under new variable spatial and sectarian guidelines that exoticise the city in the eyes of its inhabitants. The Beiruties and the Amsterdamers are constantly trying to conceal themselves behind a façade in an attempt to reconstruct their image through deconstructing their corporal existence.
 
Hassan Choubassi is a visual artist, graduated from DasArts (de Amsterdamse School / Advanced Research in Theatre Studies) in Amsterdam 2005, and from the Lebanese American University in Beirut 1996. His work has been exhibited in Lebanon, Egypt, the Netherlands and Belgium.
 
 
Gibraltar
Director: Ghassan Halwani
2005 15 min
 
Gibraltar is an adaptation from the work ‘Zanbak wel Jabal’ from the Group ‘Al Sanabel’, written towards the end of the 70’s in Beirut. ‘Zanbak wel Jabal’
tells the story of a little rabbit ‘Zanbak’, who wants to leave the safety of his cage on a farm and go to the mountains. Zanbak eventually leaves, in spite of opposition from his grandfather. During the time that the original story was written and performed on the radio in Beirut (at the K7 Audio Studios) the conflict in Beirut made broadcasting very difficult and increasingly dangerous. Public and private spaces that could potentially be used for gathering and broadcasting information became part of the war and were fought over. According to Halwani, the aim of the Gibraltar project is to convey the idea of the birth of an adult. To create a man free of all forms of heritage – a voluntary and involuntary abandonment, a quest for absolute freedom, or disappearance.
 
Ghassan Halwani (1979) studied marketing at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut (2001) and photography in Paris (2004). He has published several comic books as well as photography and film works.

 
As I Recall
Director: Rima Kaddissi
2007 13 min
 
As I recall, what Jaap Pieters told me of, Hussein and Ahmad Shaaban constructs a possible reality. What Ahmad tells me could also fit in this possible narrative. While recounting their memory[ies], the reality[ies] start to twist and alter. Stories people tell me are difficult for me to recall and repeat.
 
Rima Kadissi was born in 1978. She studied theatre directing at the Holy Spirit University in Kaslin (USEK) Lebanon, and performing arts at DasArts in Amsterdam. She has worked in performance, video and sound installation. She currently teaches performing arts at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA).
 

Fabraka
Director: Eli Alexandre Habib
2008 19 min

Set in Beirut, “Beauty and the Beast” meet in a Hip-Hop version of the story…


Both
Regie Bassem Breiche
2007 11'20 min
Moments and views of the street life in London and the private room of a couple in Beirut…and of course views from the balcony.