An intimate dialogue with Soha Bechara, ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter, in her Paris dorm room. The interview was taped during the last year of the Israeli occupation, one year after her release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation center (South Lebanon) where she had been detained for 10 years—six in isolation. Revising notions of resistance, survival, and will, the overexposed image of the survivor speaks quietly and directly to the camera—not speaking of the torture, but of separation amd loss; of what is left behind and what remains.
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Addressing issues of transition, alienation, refusal, identities, ethno-fascism, body as object & metaphor, agents, monsters, abjectness, subjective affinities, and objective trusts with material taped predominately while moving through Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Skopje. The subjects conversing come from a range of constituencies; migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, residents (permanent and transient), students, workers, and cultural producers, recounting experience, locating sites, shifts, events, and the theorizing and accounting of the issues at stake, with associated ambient imagery forming specific histories of locations, and locations of histories at the intersection of cultures in this/these particular place(s) and time(s).
UntitledImages of orchids opening, plants sprouting, clouds and water superimposed onto images of the Sabra and Chatila refugee camp massacre in Lebanon in 1982. The voice of Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a refugee from 1958 who lives in the Bourg El Harajneh camp) tells how his house in Palestine was destroyed.