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Experimental Documentary Program: Environs of Seeing

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA

Experimental Documentary Program: Environs of Seeing

Nights and Days/ (Posthumous) / Merely a Smell / Roundabout Chatila

Merely a Smell

Dir. Maher Abi Samra / Lebanon / 2007 / 11min

In its haunting sequence of just a few shots, Merely a Smell stunningly evokes the assault on the senses brought by the war, as relief workers move the bodies of the dead.

Nights and Days

Dir. Lamia Joreige / Lebanon / 2007 / 17min

Alternating the experience of Beiruts bombardment with the contemplative journey to South Lebanon after the war, this extremely personal film investigates the gaps between the experience of war and our means of seeing, hearing, and representing it.

Posthumous)

Dir. Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon / 2007 / 28min
This film-essay reflects on the conditions of the newly bombed remains in Beiruts suburbs.

Roundabout Chatila

Dir. Maher Abi Samra / Lebanon / 2005 / 50min

Shot within the confines of the Chatila refugee camp in Beirut, Maher Abi Samras long takes follow its residents constrained movement and stories of permanent exile.

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Wheelchair Accessible: No

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