Screen/Society--Jocelyne Saab | Duke Experimental Film Society

-- Presented by Duke Experimental Film Society and Screen/Society

"Lyrical and uncompromising, the films of Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019) are at once landmark works of Lebanese cinema and masterpieces of the essay film form. The poetic voiceovers of her movies recall Chris Marker, and her fragmented, diaristic images are reminiscent of Jonas Mekas. But Saab's poetic vision, and her intimate interactions with the displaced, the exiled, and the voiceless, mark her films as uniquely her own. Trained as a radio and television journalist, Saab turned her attention to nonfiction films in the wake of the Lebanese Civil War. Her epic, impressionistic trilogy of documentaries about Beirut that followed captures a city at once wounded, mournful, and bristling with life and energy, chronicling a moment at which "a kind of bitter poetry has replaced the carelessness of the past." - Film at Lincoln Center

Program:
"Beirut, Never Again" (Beyrouth Jamais Plus) (1976, 35min)
"Beirut, My City" (Beyrouth Ma Ville) (1982, 38 min)