Credits Included: A Video in Red
and Green registers the withdrawal of tradition
past a surpassing disaster (the fifteen-year Lebanese
war); produces completed crossword puzzles with subsisting
blank spaces in a country of shattered shop signs;
exhibits the rise in 1992-Beirut of a sublime architecture
of bricks in a period where it appears Arabs are being
driven to the Stone Age (Palestinians throwing stones
at the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories, etc.);
and uses fiction to document the eruption
of psychotic effects in and outside mental hospitals.
Premiere:
— "Image/Quest," Théâtre de Beyrouth, Lebanon, June 23, 1995.
