Release Date

27 Sep, 2017

Runtime

00:13: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

This film is from the project Unconformities, comprised of artworks made up from the material of surveyed land, extracted from coring construction sites in Paris, Athens and Beirut. These cores bare their "unconformities"—temporal ruptures, natural disasters, geological movements—in full view, revealing a constant cycle of construction and deconstruction that is the defining feature of civilisations past and present, with each using the stones of the last. History appears not as layers but as actions, a kind of palimpsest mixing epochs and civilizations. These poetic recompositions question the dominant forms of narrating and representing history, but also address debates around the Anthropocene.

Original Title

Palimpsestes

Photos

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Actors

Crew

Joana Hadjithomas

Khalil Joreige

Tina Baz

Talal Khoury

Joe Saade

Khalil Joreige

Julien Hirsch

رنا عيد

Dimitra Bouzani