- Description:
- DVD - Region 1.   reference copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
color.  
fullscreen.   sound.  
- Notes:
- Essay booklet available from checkout.
Titles
+ My Friend Imad and the Taxi
- Alternate Title:
- Mon Ami Imad et le Taxi
- Director:
- Nakkas, Olga; Zbib, Hassan
- Running Time:
- Short.   19 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Lebanon
- Year:
- 1985 / 2006
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, War, Female Directors
- Notes:
- In 1985, Hassan Zbib and Olga Nakkas separately started to develop film scenarios based on simple narratives, and would shoot them on Super 8, which was still possible to develop in Beirut at the time. Their work featured the city as a stage where lonely characters drifted: a taxi driver in his car, a man walking around, talking to a Rambo poster. These films were never presented as finalized work until a Beirut-based festival, né à Beyrouth, discovered them and asked the filmmakers to present their films with a live electronic soundtrack improvised by local artists. The soundtrack presented on this version is the recording of that session.
+ (It Was) Just a Job
- Director:
- Samir
- Production Co:
- 16. Januar; Swiss-Effect
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Switzerland, Iraq
- Year:
- 1992
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, War
- Notes:
- Note: image matted on all sides. Right after the first Iraq war, the filmmaker visits his family in Iraq. He tries to reconstruct the war from different points of view, all depicted on the same screen at the same time: U.S. airplanes dropping bombs, his parents fixated on the television, and the family welcoming him back.
+ Eye / Machine III
- Alternate Title:
- Eye Machine 3
- Director:
- Farocki, Harun
- Running Time:
- Short.   18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Germany
- Year:
- 2003
- Language:
- English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, War
- Notes:
- “The third part of the EYE / MACHINE cycle structures the material around the concept of the operational image. These are images which do not portray a process, but are themselves part of a process. As early as the Eighties, cruise missiles used a stored image of a real landscape, then took an actual image during flight; the software compared the two images, resulting in a comparison between idea and reality, a confrontation between pure war and the impurity of the actual. This confrontation is also a montage, and montage is always about similarity and difference. Many operational images show colored guidance lines, intended to portray the process of recognition. The lines tell us emphatically what is all-important in these images, and just as emphatically what is of no importance at all. Superfluous reality is denied -- a constant denial provoking opposition.” -- Harun Farocki
+ (Posthumous)
- Alternate Title:
- Posthumous; Posthume
- Director:
- Salhab, Ghassan
- Running Time:
- Short.   29 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Lebanon
- Year:
- 2007
- Language:
- French and Arabic with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, War
- Notes:
- Following on from the 2006 Israeli aggression on Lebanon, the filmmaker tries to film the destruction of Beirut. We witness a city deserted by life, and ghostly characters who, featured in his earlier films, talk about living through such a war.