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Chronicles of a Paradise Lost: Filming Absence (Lebanese Cinema 1965-2010)
October 31, 2012
This tour follows two critically acclaimed programs curated by ArteEast; The Calm After The Storm: Making Sense of Lebanon's Civil War in association with Film Society of Lincoln Center, and
the French Institute's (Alliance Française) World Nomads: Lebanon program.
Lebanese cinema is relatively young in comparison with that of neighboring Egypt or Syria. Lebanon’s fifteen-year history of civil war, which ravaged the country through 1991, stifled efforts to develop infrastructure for a viable film industry. However, the trauma of war also gave rise to a radical engagement with film: documentary and nonfiction genres proliferated and filmmakers were inspired to forge a subjective voice through a daring auteur cinema despite a dearth of resources, winning Lebanese cinema great international acclaim. It is a cinema with a distinctive identity: visually rich and complex, with narratives that defy conventions of plot and drama and blur the traditional boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.
Program Fee: 20% of the total screening fees for the films booked at your venue
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