Akram Zaatari Movies

  • 2000
    Red Chewing Gum

    Red Chewing Gum

    Red Chewing Gum

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    RED CHEWING GUM recounts a story of separation between two men. It is a video letter that is set in the context of the changing Hamra, a formerly...

    Red Chewing Gum
  • 1997
    All is Well on the Border

    All is Well on the Border

    All is Well on the Border

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    One of Zaatari’s earliest experiments in documentary video, All Is Well on the Border emerged from the filmmaker’s desire to understand...

    All is Well on the Border
  • 2010
    On Photography, People and Modern Times

    On Photography, People and Modern Times

    On Photography, People and Modern Times

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    On Photography, People and Modern Times is a two-channel video installation that tracks photographic records that Akram Zaatari researched and...

    On Photography, People and Modern Times
  • 2017
    On Photography, Dispossession and Times of Struggle

    On Photography, Dispossession and Times of Struggle

    On Photography, Dispossession and Times of Struggle

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    Taking the idea of loss and dispossession as a starting point, this film is a reflection on photography and its people. It looks at the position of...

    On Photography, Dispossession and Times of Struggle
  • 2015
    Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem

    Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem

    Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem

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    Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem explores the work of photographer Hashem el Madani, who has run a commercial photography studio in southern Lebanon...

    Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem
  • 2012
    Her + Him

    Her + Him

    Her + Him

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    In 1998, Akram Zaatari interviewed Egyptian photographer Van Leo in Cairo. In 2001 he made the video Her + Him Van Leo and based it on the story of a...

    Her + Him
  • 2004
    In This House

    In This House

    In This House

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    A documentary crew digs up a letter from a Lebanese socialist resistance fighter.

    In This House