[experimental essay, Lebanon, 2021]

When the Beirut explosion occurred, my first thought was that of relief that my grandmother had passed a year and some before. The best hours to sit outside amongst her plants and flowers were those of sunsets.
How does one mourn when they are grateful for the occurrence of some deaths as salvation? How does one mourn when in separation, we spare the ones we love the end of their world?

Solace

  • Tehran, Iran -2023: 100-Second International Film Festival
  • Bolivia - 2022: Black Cat Award International Film Festival
  • San Francisco, USA, Crossroads 2022:  Program 4, Before you witnessed this entropy, Curated by Steve Polta
  • Dresden, Germany - 2022: Dresdner Schmalfimtage
  • Worldwide - 2021: Center of Oral History Montreal, Beirut, one year after the blast
  • Tokyo, Japan - 2021 : "non-syntax Experimental Image Festival"
  • Frankfurt, Germany - 2021: "This is not Lebanon": Film programme: We cannot determine what will make us surrender/Sent from Elsewhere, 29.8.2021, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm

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