Workshop 4

JUSTE UNE ODEUR / مجرد رائحة
Maher Abi Samra / 2007 / France, Lebanon / 10 min / English
Production: Maher Abi Samra, Les Films d’Ici / Photography: Maher Abi Samra / Sound: Nadim Mishlawi / Editing: Ammar Albeik

Summer 2006, Israel’s war against Lebanon. On a boat carrying aid to a besieged Beirut, the loudspeaker heaps praise on the passengers who are on their way to help the population. Corpses are pulled from the rubble, bodies redefine the frontiers of other bodies, wrapped in the smell of death.

Screening followed by a talk by Maher Abi Samra and Ghassan Salhab, video-tracts by the group Video Tract For Palestine and a reading of an extract from Cap au pire by Samuel Beckett, in Arabic and French (or vice versa).