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50th Venice Biennale
15 June - 2 November 2003

Venice / 2003 / Report / Dreams & Conflicts / Contemp. Arab Repres.

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Videos

Bilal Khbeiz Randa Shaath

The following videos are shown:

The Atlas Group / Walid Raad

1967 Chbanieh, Lebanon.
Lives in Beirut and New York.

My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair: A History of Car Bombs in the Lebanese Wars

1975-1991 (Volumes 1-245) _ Engines, 2003

DVD: 5’58’’
(photo on the right, middle)

Taysir Batniji

* 1966 Gaza, Palestine. Lives between France and Palestine.
more info & photos

Untitled, 2001

Photographic fragments taken in the streets, from the walls, and in the doorways of Gaza in 2001

DVD: 4’58’’
(photo below on the right)

Tony Chakar

* 1968 Beirut; lives there

Beirut: The Impossible Portrait, 2003
And Now, Will You Let us Play with You?

DVD: 7’33’’

Text: excerpts from The Eyeless Map, by Tony Chakar, 2003

Bilal Khbeiz

* 1963 Kufur Shooba, Lebanon. Lives in Beirut.

Self-portrait, 2003
Knowledge does not precede effort

DVD: 3’59’’

Thanks to: Rabih Mroué and Walid Sadek
(photo above on the left)

Randa Shaath

* 1963 Philadelphia. Lives in Cairo.

Under the Same Sky - Rooftops of Cairo
2002 - 2003

DVD: 1’58’’

Selection from a series
(photo above on the right)

Paola Yacoub / Michel Lasserre

* 1966 Beirut / * 1947 Auch, France.
Both live in Beirut and Paris.

O.V. Original Version
March 18, 2003 / number 1

DVD: 5’58’’

O.V. Original Version
March 25, 2003 / number 2

DVD: 5’37’’

The Atlas Group / Walid Raad

Taysir Batniji

 

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