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Around Closer,
video program II
Video Screening & Artists in Conversation |
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Wednesday March 25, 2009 at 8pm
Entrance: 3 000 LL |
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  About the event |
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The second video program around the exhibition Closer focuses on videos by Lina Saneh and Ghassan Salhab, who choose the most private place as a starting point for a an artistic piece. The poetic and hypnotic filming of Salhab encounters the raw and powerful recording of Saneh when filming her mother, both radical visions that invite us to reflect on ourselves and our relation to the other.
The screening is followed by a conversation between Ghassan Salhab & Lina Saneh.
Ghassan Salhab
La Rose de Personne
Video, 10 min, Arabic with English subtitles - 2000
How is Hamra street more particular than any other street?
Narcisse perdu
Video, 15 min, Arabic with English subtitles - 2005
3 attempts of selfportrait
Lina Saneh
I Had a Dream, Mom
Video, 42 min, Arabic with English subtitles - 2006
“One day, one night, rather, I have a dream; I tell it to my mother; she understands. She throws the ball back into my court; I fail to catch it…”
A mother listens to her daughter recount a strange dream of a deserted city haunted by ghosts and interrogates her on its meaning.
Ghassan Salhab is born in Dakar, Senegal.
In addition to making his own films, Salhab collaborates on various scenarios in Lebanon and in France, and teaches film in Lebanon. He has directed three long films : Beyrouth Fantôme (selected by Trois Continents/Nantes 1998 and various international film festivals), Terra Incognita (selected by Sélection Officielle/« Un Certain Regard » - Cannes 2002, and also selected by several other international film festivals), The Last Man (selected by « Cinéastes du Présent » - Locarno 2006, Montpellier, Torino, Dubai, Singapore, Tribeca, "Tous les cinemas du monde" – Cannes 2007…), in addition to numerous short films and videos, including (Posthume); Narcisse Perdu; My living body, my dead body; La Rose de personne; Baalbeck (co-directed with A. Zaatari and M. Soueid); Afrique Fantôme; Après la Mort… He has also published his texts and articles in various magazines.
Lina Saneh was born in Beirut in 1966. She studied theater at the Lebanese University in Beirut and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She has written, directed and acted in numerous performances, among which are: Les Chaises (1996), Ovrira (1997), Extrait d’Etat Civil (2000), Biokhraphia (2002), Appendice (2007), I Had A Dream, Mom (video, 2006), and Someone Must Have Been Telling Lies About Me (video installation, 2008).
Since 2000, Saneh has been an assistant professor at the Institut d’Etudes Scéniques et Audio-visuelles (IESAV) at the Université Saint-Joseph (USJ) in Beirut and at the Université Saint-Esprit Kaslik.
She is currently teaching at the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva (Switzerland).
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