This program will also play in-person at the Cinema Village - Purchase Ticket or Present SNW Pass.
A double feature of two mid-length pieces that gather data to construct political arguments and prise apart historical narratives constructed of faulty data.
The Diary of a Sky unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts. This 45-minute video essay plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life transformed by the weaponization of the air, where the terror of repeated incursions becomes a disconcertingly banal backdrop.
My Want of You Partakes of Me interrogates digestion as the fundamental condition for being in the world, a process of physiological, psychological, spiritual, literary and political dimensions. Multiple storylines trace the poetics of incorporation as a matter of metamorphosis and decay, the philosophy of matter and imperial conquest, industrialization and annihilation, poetry and parenting, love and citation.
The Diary of a Sky (Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Lebanon | 2024 | 45 min)
My Want of You Partakes of Me (Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner | UK / The Netherlands | 2024 | 54 min)
TRT: 99 min