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RESOUNDING LANDSCAPES, curated by Nour Helou, brings together short films by Arab filmmakers who center songs in their cinematic offerings.
In our songs were ready for all wars to come, Noor Abed investigates the critical and representational potential of Palestinian historical communal folktales and songs to rewrite reality as we know it; in A Song to My Brothers, Sirine Fattouh stages six women to subvert Lebanon’s national anthem—striking back at patriarchal and nationalist authority; in Hussein Nassereddine's A King Made of Nothing, voices and images are collected across generations to reflect on mortality and poetic memory of Arab singers; and in Capital, Basma al-Sharif critiques the rise of architectural neo-colonial violence in Egypt via a re and mis - translation of a French song.
A King Made of Nothing by Hussein Nassereddine
A King Made of Nothing is a work by artist Hussein Nassereddine that explores the notions of the human voice, geography, time, and age, as singers grow old, changing their mythological bodies, into human ones. Using found footage, digital images, poems written by the artist, as well as footage shot by the artist’s own mother in their native village in south Lebanon, Nassereddine collects the human voice as a personal token of intimacy and a reflection on time itself. The videos depict rare instances, where singers and their voices appear to have escaped time -even for a mere second- only to come back from this moment, with an ever more present reminder of their mortality.
About the Filmmaker:
Hussein Nassereddine is a multidisciplinary artist living and working between Beirut (Lebanon), and Paris (France). His work in installation, writing, video and performance originates from a practice around language that builds fragile monuments - some verbal, some sonic, some tactile - rooted in collective histories and resources of poetry, ruins, construction and image-making.
His works, performances and texts have been presented in museums, biennales and institutions around the world, including the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2024), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2023), Jameel Art Center (2022), MISC Athens (2021), and Beirut Art Center (2020) among others.
His first book How to see the palace pillars as palm trees was published in Arabic in 2020 with Kayfa ta. The English translation was published in 2024.
- Year2023
- Runtime7 mins 14 secs
- LanguageArabic
- CountryLebanon
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorHussein Nassereddine
RESOUNDING LANDSCAPES, curated by Nour Helou, brings together short films by Arab filmmakers who center songs in their cinematic offerings.
In our songs were ready for all wars to come, Noor Abed investigates the critical and representational potential of Palestinian historical communal folktales and songs to rewrite reality as we know it; in A Song to My Brothers, Sirine Fattouh stages six women to subvert Lebanon’s national anthem—striking back at patriarchal and nationalist authority; in Hussein Nassereddine's A King Made of Nothing, voices and images are collected across generations to reflect on mortality and poetic memory of Arab singers; and in Capital, Basma al-Sharif critiques the rise of architectural neo-colonial violence in Egypt via a re and mis - translation of a French song.
A King Made of Nothing by Hussein Nassereddine
A King Made of Nothing is a work by artist Hussein Nassereddine that explores the notions of the human voice, geography, time, and age, as singers grow old, changing their mythological bodies, into human ones. Using found footage, digital images, poems written by the artist, as well as footage shot by the artist’s own mother in their native village in south Lebanon, Nassereddine collects the human voice as a personal token of intimacy and a reflection on time itself. The videos depict rare instances, where singers and their voices appear to have escaped time -even for a mere second- only to come back from this moment, with an ever more present reminder of their mortality.
About the Filmmaker:
Hussein Nassereddine is a multidisciplinary artist living and working between Beirut (Lebanon), and Paris (France). His work in installation, writing, video and performance originates from a practice around language that builds fragile monuments - some verbal, some sonic, some tactile - rooted in collective histories and resources of poetry, ruins, construction and image-making.
His works, performances and texts have been presented in museums, biennales and institutions around the world, including the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2024), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2023), Jameel Art Center (2022), MISC Athens (2021), and Beirut Art Center (2020) among others.
His first book How to see the palace pillars as palm trees was published in Arabic in 2020 with Kayfa ta. The English translation was published in 2024.
- Year2023
- Runtime7 mins 14 secs
- LanguageArabic
- CountryLebanon
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorHussein Nassereddine