Lebanon

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an independent investigator or Private Ear. His investigations focus on sound and linguistics. This 45-minute video essay plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life transformed by the weaponisation of the air, where the terror of repeated incursions becomes a disconcertingly banal backdrop.

In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Journalist and filmmaker Jocelyne Saab watched her home burn down. One hundred and fifty years of family history went up in smoke. She seeks refuge in questions: when did this all start? How did the people of Beirut experience the siege? Each place then becomes a story, and each name is a memory.

Johan Van der Keuken shot The Palestinians in 1975 in Lebanon, before the outbreak of civil war. The film provides a nuanced look at the issue of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

A crane operator discovers a freedom he finds nowhere else, dozens of feet above the ground.