2003 | Lebanon | Documentary

This Day (al yaoum)

  • Arabic - 86 mins
  • Director | Akram Zaatari
  • Writer | Akram Zaatari
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

Shot in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, this essay uses transportation, video, and photography to examine images circulating in a historically charged, and presently war-torn and divided, Middle East. From images of camels in the desert to images of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the video looks at states of mind in relation to actual geographies. The video pays tribute to an unformatted and open-ended documentary approach, and examines modes of access to information such as travel, television and the Internet, while carefully displaying the resulting iconography.

Documentary Memory Exploration Lebanese History Archival Footage Personal Narrative Photography Artist Study Middle Eastern Cinema
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