LANDSCAPES WITHOUT BODIES
Beirut, Lebanon
Produced with the support of Ashkal Alwan
Produced with the support of Ashkal Alwan
2018
When Osama Bin Laden’s compound was demolished in 2012, A BBC article stated, “No official reason for the demolition has been given. Residents around the compound have speculated that authorities do not want it turned into a shrine.”
As sites are increasingly sanctified and weaponized through military violence, where do their replicas and speculative trace stand? As our landscapes are populated by military monuments, militarized urban infrastructure and networks of surveillance, our forms of intimacy too are being channeled through these very structures, enfolding themselves within dense entanglements of violent legacies. What grows in the voids left by methodical demolitions, site-less shrines and continually mutating and mediated memories?
In Landscapes Without Bodies an emotional echo who attempts to make sense of the multi-folding violence of military replicas and its various manifestations (both physical and virtual) speaks only the language of intimacy and loss; reimagining memorialization and the strange interplays between intimacy and the virtual.
As sites are increasingly sanctified and weaponized through military violence, where do their replicas and speculative trace stand? As our landscapes are populated by military monuments, militarized urban infrastructure and networks of surveillance, our forms of intimacy too are being channeled through these very structures, enfolding themselves within dense entanglements of violent legacies. What grows in the voids left by methodical demolitions, site-less shrines and continually mutating and mediated memories?
In Landscapes Without Bodies an emotional echo who attempts to make sense of the multi-folding violence of military replicas and its various manifestations (both physical and virtual) speaks only the language of intimacy and loss; reimagining memorialization and the strange interplays between intimacy and the virtual.
Past Screenings:
2021 Diasporic Rhizome, South Asia Institute Chicago, USA
2019 Angkor Photo Festival 2019, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2019 Fracto Experimental Film Festival, ACUD Kunsthaus, Berlin, Germany
2018 Ashkal Alwan HWP Open Studios, Beirut, Lebanon
Please reach out to request a viewing link.
2021 Diasporic Rhizome, South Asia Institute Chicago, USA
2019 Angkor Photo Festival 2019, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2019 Fracto Experimental Film Festival, ACUD Kunsthaus, Berlin, Germany
2018 Ashkal Alwan HWP Open Studios, Beirut, Lebanon
Please reach out to request a viewing link.
