[LCM Events] Lebanese film screening

[Philippe Saad]

>Remembering the Lebanese Civil War
>
>Wednesday 23 February 2005
>Three screenings
>6-9:30 pm
>
>    Guerre Civile (Mohamad Soueid, 83 mins, 2002) ­ starts at 6
>    Objets de Guerre I (Lamia Joreige, 67 mins, 2003) ­ starts at 7:30
>    Here and Perhaps Elsewhere (Lamia Joreige, 54 mins, 2003) ­ starts at 8:45
>
>Harvard Film Archive
>Carpenter Center
>Room BO4
>(24 Quincy Street Cambridge)
>
>Lamia Joreige will be on hand after the screenings for Q & A
>
>Civil War (Harb Ahliyyah)
>In late 1999, Mohamed Do‘aybess, a well known Lebanese assistant director and
>production manager, left his home never to return.  Several months after his
>disappearance, he was found dead in a deserted building in the southern 
>suburbs
>of Beirut.  This film tells Mohamed's story through his film career, as 
>well as
>his tragic death.
>
>Objects of War (1)
>Objects of war is a series of first-person testimonials as to the Lebanese 
>civil
>war.  Each person featured has chosen a familiar, oft-banal object to 
>serve as a
>starting point for his/her story.  The testimonials, while helping to create a
>collective memory, also manifest the impossibility of telling one 
>authoritative
>"History" of this war. In fact only fragments of this History are related 
>here,
>held as truth by those expressing them; they are sincere and/or invented
>versions of an event that cannot possibly be narrated.
>
>Here and Perhaps Elsewhere
>Joreige’s journey takes her along the Green Line that separated West 
>Beirut from
>the East.  As she traverses the line, she asks inhabitants the same 
>question in
>methodical fashion: "Do you know anyone who was kidnapped here during the 
>war?"
>  Here, Joreige triggers the process of memory and history making, finally
>revealing the diversity of discourses surrounding the war.  Hers is a map of
>the city that is at once personal, and immensely universal in its fragility.
>
>In collaboration with the Harvard Middle Eastern Cultural Association
>Inquiries:  email dallan at fas.harvard.edu or Negar_Azimi at ksg06.harvard.edu
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