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The street scape of Broken Hill, "the accessible outback" country town of Australia, is seen from the viewing platform of a Lebanese reality. Houses, neat, some pretty, some with children playing in front collide with sounds remembered from so long ago, maybe from one of Beirut's many wars, maybe even from future wars.

There, exponential repetition sets apathy on a collision course with fear where mangled silences interrupt - but only to disrupt the remnants of safe living and to send eidetic shock waves through rose-colored lenses. The question of responsibility then emerges to demand, if not an answer, then a pause for grief, for consideration due to the boundaries of the senses and the centrality of the body's - any-body's - pain and sorrow.

Mireille Astore is an artist, director and writer. Her videos have been exhibited and screened at the 2004 Sydney Film Festival; 2005 CinemaEast – New York; 2006 Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre; Freud Museum-London; Leeds City Art Gallery; Casoria Contemporary Art Museum-Naples; Sakakini Cultural Centre-Ramallah; 2006 Espace SD, Beirut; Tate Modern; 2007 Adelaide Film Festival; 2008 Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran Film Festival (London) and 3rd Guangzhou Triennial. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions including the Conny Dietzschold Multiple Box Gallery - Sydney and 8th Sharjah Biennial.  In 2003, she won the National Photographic Purchase Award (Australia). She has a PhD in Contemporary Arts.

Fabian Astore is a digital media artist and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited in numerous national and international festivals including; 2004 Sydney Film Festival; Berlin International Video Festival; Cadiz International Video Festival - Spain; Exground Filmfest, Wiesbaden - Germany, and the 2007 Adelaide Film Festival - Australia. He has also completed digital animations for nine main stage theatre productions including 'Mad Bad and Spooky', 2001 Sydney Festival; ‘Stella and the Moon Man’, Sydney Theatre and winner of the 2006 Helpman Award for Best Children's Presentation, and in 2007 ‘Lulie the Iceberg’, an Australian-Japanese collaboration with the Kageboushi Theatre Company, Tokyo. He is currently a sessional lecturer at the University of NSW.