(Posthumous)
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(Posthumous)Ghassan Salhab (Lebanon; 2007, 28 min.)Sun. May 9, 5:30 p.m. Thu. May 13, 4:00 p.m. Screens with 1958. Total run time is 106 minutes. During and after the 2006 war with Israel, Beirut thoroughfares are a cloud of media noise and martial worship, with the steady scrape of the bulldozer claw. Locals, posed like Bresson “models” in screen tests, silently return and confound the gaze, or give their backs. Salhab layers sound and image like chips of a cairn, a fragile yet lapidary marker on the road to the Lebanese interior. Filmmaker's Biography Ghassan Salhab was born in Dakar in 1958. In addition to directing his own films, Salhab is also a scriptwriter. He teaches film at the Lebanese School of Fine Arts (ALBA). He has directed three features. Ghosts of Beirut (Ashbah Beyroot, 1998) screened at the Festival des Trois Continents in Nantes and various other international film festivals. Terra Incognita, released in 2002, was screened in “Un Certain Regard” at Cannes. The Last Man (Atlal, 2006), his most recent feature, screened in “Cinéastes du Présent” at the Locarno Film Festival and was included in the official competition of the Tribeca Film Festival. He has also directed a number of short films, including The Key (La Clé, 1986), The Other (L’Autre, 1989), After Death (Après la mort, 1991) and Of Seduction (De la seduction, co-directed with Nisreen Khodr in 1999), and the experimental videos Narcisse Perdu (2001), My Living Body, My Dead Body (2001) and La Rose de personne (2002). Salhab is also a prolific writer and publishes literary and critical essays in a number of dailies and magazines. Credits Cast: Aouni Kawas, Carole Abboud, Rabih Mroué, Abla Khoury, Issam Abou Khaled, Fadi Abi Samra Writer: Ghassan Salhab Producer: Ashkal Alwan Cinematographer: Sarmad Louis Editor: Simon Al Habre Sound: Rana Eid |