Monday the 14th October, 2013: AltCity Hamra, Beirut
I will be having a screening of the film followed by a workshop on the basics of documentary filmmaking. In the workshop I will cover filmmaking as a whole, the requirements needed to start and complete a project, as well as the workflow and alternative methods one can use to successfully complete a film.
LUBNAN is a documentary that explores the
physical fabric that makes up Lebanon today. It takes the audience on a journey
through some of the elements that have come to define this country over the
years and displays them as they are in their present form. The film explores
elements ranging from the beautiful to the strange, and from the pleasant to
the terrible.
Presented as a sequence of images and
sounds, the film features carefully chosen subjects to represent the various
elements that characterise this very contradictory and constantly changing
country.
Beirut like most cities, is a fast changing and often surprising environment. On my most recent trip I have found that many once familiar sights have gone or have been transformed into something new and unfamiliar. As an outsider coming in to witness the sudden changes without seeing the gradual process, I thought it would be wise to document the landscape as it stood it its current state, before anymore change occurred.
The main difference was that I am not taking these pictures from the most conventional places as I wanted to give a slightly new edge to already familiar views.
