This essay examines how Lebanon's war has transformed from a historical event into an invisible, living legacy that organizes identity, language, architecture, and collective memory. Instead of receding into the past, war continues to exist in everyday gestures, cityscapes, and inherited social structures, passed on as a silent trauma from one generation to the next. By interlacing archival remnants, abstract imagery, and contemplative voice-over, the film investigates how violence becomes normalized and ingrained in cultural consciousness and whether it is possible to deconstruct this inheritance, a narrative based on peace instead of war. Memorials intended to honor and commemorate often reinspire division, rendering the war ongoing through an unspoken language. Through visual testimony and archival echoes, the video questions how memory is created, distorted, and brooded over, and whether an inherited war culture can ever be deconstructed completely.
Based on the text by Mohamed Marwani: From Violence to the Unconscious: War as the Invisible Heritage of the Present
