Filmmaker and writer
Ghassan Salhab
A Lebanese filmmaker, writer, and educator whose feature films, essays, and video works move between fiction, history, and the image.
Beyond Borders
A visual project exploring the changing boundaries between digital, archival, and experimental images.
About the project
Beyond Borders considers how digital, archival, raw, and generated images now overlap, making older boundaries between film, documentary, experiment, and video art increasingly unstable.
Artist and filmmaker
Alaa Mansour
An artist, filmmaker, and archivist working between Marseille and Beirut, with a practice focused on violence, images, memory, and the politics of death.
Video artist and editor
Rami Sabbagh
A Lebanese video artist, writer, film editor, and musician whose work moves between fiction, found material, and abstract forms of storytelling.
Working with images
The workshop joined practical making with critical discussion, giving participants space to test image-making and filmmaking techniques and develop projects around them.
Contemporary reflections on cinema
Archival images, texts, sound, editing, and reused material became the basis for new visual works and new conversations with contemporary cinema.
The Last Man / 2006 / 101 min
In Beirut, a series of mysterious murders draws a forensic doctor into unfamiliar changes in his body and life, in a film that brings together the city, myth, and unease.
1958 / 2009 / 58 min
A film by Ghassan Salhab presented within the project’s screening program, returning to memory and history through the cinematic image.
The Valley / 2014 / 135 min
After an accident in the Lebanese mountains, a man in his fifties loses his memory and encounters a group of strangers, beginning a journey through isolation, doubt, and the recovery of self.
Rose / 2019 / 72 min
The film brings together Rosa Luxemburg’s letters and writing with archival images of Berlin to create a layered work about her presence and legacy.