Unraveling Narratives in Art and Film | Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige talk about their multidisciplinary work as artists, photographers, and filmmakers. They tell us about the beginning of their partnership, the work they've done across the years from the Wonder Beirut installation to the film about Khiam, to the Lebanese Rocket Society and most recently Memory Box.
Filmmakers and artists, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige question the fabrication of images and representations, the construction of imaginaries, and the writing of history. Their works create thematic and formal links between photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture, and cinema, being documentary or fiction film. The artists are known for their long-term research based on personal or political documents, with particular interests in the traces of the invisible and the absent, histories kept secret such as the disappearances during the Lebanese Civil War, a forgotten space project from the 1960s, the strange consequences of Internet scams and spams or the geological and archaeological undergrounds of cities.
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