(AS IF) BEAUTY NEVER ENDS (UNTITLED PART 3B)

of SALLOUM Jayce

LEBANON, 2002, 00:11:22

Production : SALLOUM Jayce
Genre : Video art, Creative documentary
Keyword : Communication, War, Memory, Relation, Society

Summary :
A more ambient work of many things, including orchids blooming, and plants growing, superimposed over raw footage from post massacre filmings of the 1982 massacre at Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon. Cloud footage, Hubbell space imagery, the visible body crosscuts, and abstract shots of slow motion water, add to this reflection of the past, its present context and forbearance. With the voice over of Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a 1948 refugee living in Bourg El Barajneh camp) recounting a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine, and the collection of audio accompanying the clips, the tape permeates into an intense essay on dystopia in contemporary times. Working directly, viscerally, and metaphorically the videotape provides an elegiac response to the Palestinian dispossession.

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