And Now Where To?: Trauma and Perceived Futures in Lebanese Cinema
And Now Where To?: Trauma and Perceived Futures in Lebanese Cinema
Lebanese filmmakers are confronted with the question: What will Lebanon’s future look like? The screenings and conversation will engage with past and present trauma in Lebanon, an imagined future, and a dream space of “where to?"
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Lenfest Center for the Arts - The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
October 01, 2022 | 10:00 am
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Event Format

10am–11:30am: Screening of Erased, Ascent of the Invisible
12pm–1:45pm: Screening of 1983
3:15pm–5:30pm: Screenings of Once Upon a Revolution and Us. Lebanon. followed by a Filmmaker Roundtable

Creative Team

Filmmaker Roundtable will feature Ghassan Halwani, Oualid Mouaness, Soha Shukayr, Elijah Ghossein, Nico Baumbach (Film and Media Studies), and Sam Lahoud (Beirut Film Society).

Location

Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129th St
New York, NY

About The Performance

Lebanese filmmakers are confronted with the question: What will Lebanon’s future look like? The screenings and conversation will engage with past and present trauma in Lebanon, an imagined future, and a dream space of “where to?”

Organized by Aciah Abdulsater, MA Candidate in Film and Media Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts.

For more information about this performance, please visit the event website.

Image: Artwork for Erased, Ascent of the Invisible