The Beirut Art Center is organizing a tournament in which young ‘filmmakers’ should compose a double screening of something they filmed and a muted version of a parallel gem.
I decided to talk about the endless reconstruction of the city of Beirut, that succumbs nearly every decade to bombings but always seem to wake from the dead- for the price of a different identity. I would just film sequences of buildings in reconstruction to the sound of Mahmoud Darwiche poems recited by my Arabic teacher. I chose for parallel gem Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria since I find a similitude between Giulietta Masina’s character and the city of Beirut, who always find a way to find reconstruct themselves after destruction(In Masina’s case, emotional).
Do you find this idea original enough? If not, do you have any suggestions regarding the parallel gem?
I thought I’d put Zhangke’s Platform or Wang Bing’s West of Tracks , but I’d think it’d be too obvious.
Edwin N
The Beirut Art Center is organizing a tournament in which young ‘filmmakers’ should compose a double screening of something they filmed and a muted version of a parallel gem.
I decided to talk about the endless reconstruction of the city of Beirut, that succumbs nearly every decade to bombings but always seem to wake from the dead- for the price of a different identity. I would just film sequences of buildings in reconstruction to the sound of Mahmoud Darwiche poems recited by my Arabic teacher. I chose for parallel gem Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria since I find a similitude between Giulietta Masina’s character and the city of Beirut, who always find a way to find reconstruct themselves after destruction(In Masina’s case, emotional).
Do you find this idea original enough? If not, do you have any suggestions regarding the parallel gem?
I thought I’d put Zhangke’s Platform or Wang Bing’s West of Tracks , but I’d think it’d be too obvious.
I do need you guys’ help :)