FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE FILM ET VIDEO DE CREATION
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3rd Edition

From May 6 to May 9, 2008
At the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) - Sin el Fil - Lebanon

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Night 3: Saturday March 4, 2006
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21h00 - 22h45 Video Screening 4 Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA - University of Balamand) - Sin El Fil - Lebanon
Experimental Videos by art students
   

Since 2002, the school of Fine Arts at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (University of Balamand) has inserted video art in its program, including théorical lessons as well as projects productions.

From then, these vidéos show evidence of the multiple looks and questionings on the social, political and cultural background of their authors.

In this festival, the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts show a selection of its students’ projects...

Videos selection

Ziad ABILLAMA, « Drugs and Nature », 2’ 52’’
In this video, we don't think that the Lebanese war is a natural phenomenon. Is the vegetable seller, next door, an expert in the affairs of nature ? Is he afraid of an artificial paradise ? Can he distinguish a potato from a Kiwi ?

Ziad ABILLAMA, « Elna et Elissa », 4’ 38’’
A video that puts in parallel connections with the current Lebanese society: An opinion of a citizen, the socio-musical perception through Elissa the singer and the socio-historical perception through the society of the “artisanal” manufacturer: Elna.

Hiba DAROUB, « (Dés)Attachement », 9’ 15’’
A video that shows, in the manner of dreams and metaphors, a situation that happens between the meeting and the division of two people. Through icon images and he diverted symbols, this video becomes itself, by identification, a meeting and a division.

Ali KAYS, « Nothing matters » , 9’ 17’
Mohammad gives up his passion for music, his sister, his two friends Helmi and Taoufic, the faculty of architecture, his despaired mother, and then later his first love Marie… He leaves everything, obsessed by the idea of him having the duty to fight in his society.

Charbel CHAMOUN, « Takassim », 4’ 55’’
In this video we find an experimental acoustic and visual treatment of the sociopolitical situation in Lebanon, where the demonstration becomes a hypnotic environment above all.

Amandine BRENAS, « Sous-pitrage », 5' 47''
Man today tends to archive his epoch. This video is an example of that fact. Our current state is rocking towards a vicious circle: we repeat the dead-ends of the past. Will the young generation be the same as their elders ?

Amandine BRENAS, « Apocalypse », 4' 56''
It’s a video that puts in parallel a social Lebanese situation with the narration of the film « Apocalypse Now ». Thus it questions the relationship between reality and fiction, the actors’ play and the social behavior.

Elsa GHOSSOUB, « 7iwar (Dialogue) », 6' 21''
Is it possible for a couple to meet in their own residence without seeing or hearing each other ?
Are they aware of the path on which they’re leading the relationship ?
Is it a chaotic road, labyrinths, or maybe even a dead-end ?

Kinda HASSAN, « Yet another shot », 5’ 3’’
How many times do we have to witness the repetition of this endless scene?
When will disasters become real disasters?
Aren’t there any maladjusted people out there?

Mireille RECHMANY, « Ila el kamerat « , 3’ 29’’
Ila el kamerat, a video that shows the reactions that someone could have when facing a camera. And this upon two dimensions: the spontaneous reaction and the already prepared reaction. Can we always notice the difference? Can a man always control his fear?
Thus the artist goes into an auto-therapy, or at least an attempt to generalize a flaw from which she suffers, and that in a political and personal frame at once.

Wissam KHATTAR, « Beirut », 4’’ 31’’
Using up the visual possibilities of video (25 frames/second), W. Khattar seeks the limits of the visual perception in motion of the word « Beirut », that becomes here a video icon for a city that has always been questioned by the artists.

 

BREAK 10'

Jean-Noel AOUN, « emit », 4’ 38’’
Once upon a time, a student asks the teacher: «Sir, how do we go back in time?», and the teacher teaches him how to 'undo'.  Once upon a time, in a blue room…

Ghada SALEM, « from Void to Void », 9’ 11’’
This video is an experimentation that speaks through the audiovisual codes of the full and the empty that surrounds us. It’s a parallelism between the caves of nature and the human body, until becoming a presentation that fuses these two substances together to create one and only one single entity.

Mansour EL HABRE, « Videplein », 2’ 29’’
This video tells a dialogue between the static and the moving images, with the presence of a text that also plays its role in this poetic/esthetic narration.

Maria BOU HABIB, « Dans moi il y a temps « , 4’ 17’’
The artist shows a point of view about the time perception, especially about its on going run. She shot subtle situation that reflects our worries and our attitude toward the waiting. This waiting that does never leave us alone.

Sana CHKEIBANE, « Foot », 1’ 41’’
This video questions the relation between image and sound; these two elements interact together simultaneously while passing from a daily life figurative shape, to a more imaginary and abstract one on the screen.

Fadi ELIANE, « Cercle vicieux « , 3’
The searching for one’s self is shown in this video via metaphoric images that form a situation where a poetical environment takes place.
 
Imad ABDEL SATER, « Tentation forêt », 2’ 53’’
We find in this video a graphical treatment that takes into big consideration the specification of the video medium especially its rectangular frame, and its screen savers’ elements. This is to pass a temptation crisis, a forest that is sometimes wild, and some other times domestic…

Total running time: 156 min.

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