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Cruel Weather. Film: This Day
22 October
2004 Prix Son, Festival Internationale du Documentaire de Marseilles
This Day [Akram Zaatari, 86min, 2003]
- Thursday 22 October
- Time: 6pm
- Location: Belmont Picturehouse
- For tickets contact Belmont Picturehouse or phone 01224 343534
In a thoughtful, dreamlike montage, the Beirut-based video artist examines archival photos, from portraits of Bedouins in the desert to the bomb-rent sky over the Lebanese capital. The imagery moves from an idyllic rural past, when the central conflict was between camel and car, to the strife-ridden present of propaganda and urban alienation. From his perch at the editing station, where he assembles these layers of history, Zaatari wonders what truths are ultimately captured in these photographs.