This 8-minute experimental video reactivates Nancy Faour’s reflective text through found and re-enacted archival material images, sounds, and gestures that carry traces of Lebanon’s civil war and its afterlife. The concept centers on “invisible violence”: the war that continues inside people’s language, gestures, and silences.
The work unfolds as a meditation on intergenerational trauma and inherited memory, combining film fragments, radio recordings, family photographs, and public-broadcast debris with contemporary digital textures. Each act oscillates between past and present, re-staging fragments of the collective archive as living matter that breathes, flickers, and sometimes resists visibility.
Stylistically, the film embraces temporal collapse where grainy 16 mm footage merges with mobile-phone images, magnetic sound hum with field recordings, and the static noise of history with the silence of private grief. The voice-over (in Arabic) becomes the emotional spine, alternating between confession, observation, and invocation, an address from one generation to the next.
Based on the text by Nancy Faour: Between the Past and the Present
