BEIRUT OUTTAKES

by Peggy AHWESH
2007 / Video / color / sound / 1S / 7' 30

Mr. Salloum found a cache of deteriorating commercial film reels, trailers and commercials in an abandoned theater in Beirut in the 1980's. Many years later, inspired by the material as a historical marker of popular media culture during the era of the civil war and a document of western orientalism, Ms. Ahwesh edited some of the fragments together. Beirut Outtakes is a small tribute to endurance, the history of decay and an examination of the export of American product.

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distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 1,37 - Standard (single screen)
speed 29,976 fps
sound sound
rental fee 41,00 €