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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 Song to My Brothers by Sirine Fattouh
A Song to My Brothers is a video performance in which six women hum the Lebanese national anthem while beating out its rhythm with leather belts. Holding the belts taut between their hands, they snap them rhythmically, a gesture that evokes both discipline and latent violence. This loaded choreography disrupts the solemnity of the anthem, transforming it into a space of tension. By confronting a national symbol with gestures associated with control and coercion, Fattouh exposes the authoritarian undercurrents embedded in both patriotic and domestic spheres.
About the Filmmaker:
Sirine Fattouh (b. 1980) is a visual artist, researcher, and educator with a PhD in Fine Arts from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a degree from ENSAPC. Born in Beirut, her practice explores themes of exile, memory, and silenced narratives through video installations, drawings, performances, and oral histories. Her work centers on fragmented memory, non-heroic lives, and alternative histories shaped by war, displacement, and conflict, often through a feminist and decolonial lens.
She engages with intimate and suppressed stories, using art as a space for preserving and reactivating marginalized voices. Humor subtly intervenes to challenge dominant representations and the figure of the “perfect Arab artist.”
Since 2005, she has taught in France and Lebanon and worked at the Centre Pompidou in 2010 on the “Art and Globalization” program. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at MAXXI (Rome), Centre Pompidou (Metz), Mucem (Marseille), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Beirut Art Center, Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), and the Thessaloniki Biennale.
- Year2023
- Runtime2:25
- Languagewordless film
- CountryFrance
- Subtitle Languagewordless film
- DirectorSirine Fattouh
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 Song to My Brothers by Sirine Fattouh
A Song to My Brothers is a video performance in which six women hum the Lebanese national anthem while beating out its rhythm with leather belts. Holding the belts taut between their hands, they snap them rhythmically, a gesture that evokes both discipline and latent violence. This loaded choreography disrupts the solemnity of the anthem, transforming it into a space of tension. By confronting a national symbol with gestures associated with control and coercion, Fattouh exposes the authoritarian undercurrents embedded in both patriotic and domestic spheres.
About the Filmmaker:
Sirine Fattouh (b. 1980) is a visual artist, researcher, and educator with a PhD in Fine Arts from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a degree from ENSAPC. Born in Beirut, her practice explores themes of exile, memory, and silenced narratives through video installations, drawings, performances, and oral histories. Her work centers on fragmented memory, non-heroic lives, and alternative histories shaped by war, displacement, and conflict, often through a feminist and decolonial lens.
She engages with intimate and suppressed stories, using art as a space for preserving and reactivating marginalized voices. Humor subtly intervenes to challenge dominant representations and the figure of the “perfect Arab artist.”
Since 2005, she has taught in France and Lebanon and worked at the Centre Pompidou in 2010 on the “Art and Globalization” program. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at MAXXI (Rome), Centre Pompidou (Metz), Mucem (Marseille), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Beirut Art Center, Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), and the Thessaloniki Biennale.
- Year2023
- Runtime2:25
- Languagewordless film
- CountryFrance
- Subtitle Languagewordless film
- DirectorSirine Fattouh