BAC Video Club

We’re excited to launch the first edition of the Beirut Art Center Video Club with a lineup of five short films woven together by themes of memory, desire, and resistance.

The Scent Sang a Song (2025) by R:e – 3 mins

Pacific Club (2023) by Valentin Noujaïm  – 16mins

In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense – the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of integrating into France but who soon came face to face with racism, the AIDS epidemic, and heroin.

Love and Revenge (2021) by Anhar Salem – 31 mins

A docu-fiction follows Doody (Badriah Ahmed) and Ansam Salem, Anhar’s niece and sister, who portray fictionalised versions of themselves as young women navigating contemporary Saudi society. Staged scenes of private moments, public appearances, and performances unfold as a cathartic journey from the real incident when Doody, after publishing a photo, faced mass bullying online and accusations from authorities.

The trembling air (2025) by R:e – 2 mins

Love Seduces Innocence, Pleasure Leading her on, Remorse Follows (2025) by Poetry in Motion (Callum Harrison + Ivory Pijin) – 30 mins

On the run, slipping between dreams, two drifters lose themselves across the South of England.