2011-2012 Season
Photo-Romance
Wednesday - Saturday | NAC Studio
April 4 - 7, 2012
Save this to my calendar Running time is approximately 1 hour 30 minutes with no intermission.Created, written and directed by Lina Saneh and
Rabih Mroué
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The Swing, oil painting on canvas, 84 x 60
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Created, written and directed by Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué
Stage design: Samar Maakaroun
Music: Charbel Haber
Translation: Masha Refka
Performed by Rabih Mroué, Lina Saneh and Charbel Haber
Image sequence production: Lina Saneh, Rabih Mroué and Sarmad Louis
Director of photography: Sarmad Louis
Assistant director and production coordinator: Petra Serhal
Costumes: Zeina Saab de Melero
Makeup: Stéphanie Aznarez
Performed by Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh
Special appearance by Mona Mroué
Coproduced by the Avignon Festival, Théâtre de l’Agora Scène nationale d’Evry et de l’Essonne, Festival/Tokyo, Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), L’Établissement public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris), Associazione Festival delle Colline (Turin), Ashkal Alwan Lebanese Association for the Plastic Arts (Beirut)
With the support of the Embassy of France in Lebanon, Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle (SCAC)
A funny and penetrating portrait of modern-day Lebanon, in the form of an animated photo story!
Beirut, 2006, shortly after the Israeli attack. A Lebanese director arrives at the censorship office to submit footage from a film she has just made, loosely based on Ettore Scola’sA Special Day. She shows the censor images of demonstrations, and a series of black-and-white shots of a meeting between two solitary beings: Lina, a housewife overwhelmed by her family, social and religious responsibilities, and Rabih, a former left-wing activist now living on the social and political fringes of present-day Lebanon. But there’s a twist: the censor and the director play the lead roles in the film!
Moral
Marginalization requires a lot of attention
And a little complacency.
Is it possible that sooner or later It will be rewarded?
Diamonds and doubloons
Speak louder than words,
And even though enlightened ideas
Are worth a great deal more,
So far they have been seriously undervalued.
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