The Lebanese film scene between crisis and artistic temporalities (2019-2024)
Speaker: Charlotte Schwarzinger, doctoral student in Political Studies at EHESS
Discussant: Salima Tenfiche, PhD in History and Image Semiology, Université Paris Cité – EHESS/Mucem
Combining ethnography, film analysis and research-creation, this seminar aims to observe the Lebanese film scene between 2019 and 2024. How do the multiple crises of recent years influence creative processes? Faced with the country’s collapse, actors are unable to anchor themselves in the present or project themselves into the future. Yet the act of creation is intrinsically linked to time and space, and calls for action. Does making a film mean inscribing oneself in a time, in one’s own time – reappropriated by the making and/or by the filmic narrative? The confrontation is between two distinct temporalities that are nonetheless complementary by default: those of Lebanon and those of cinema.
A doctoral seminar organized by the CCMO (Cercle des chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient)
Speaker: Charlotte Schwarzinger, doctoral student in Political Studies at EHESS
Discussant: Salima Tenfiche, PhD in History and Image Semiology, Université Paris Cité – EHESS/Mucem
Combining ethnography, film analysis and research-creation, this seminar aims to observe the Lebanese film scene between 2019 and 2024. How do the multiple crises of recent years influence creative processes? Faced with the country’s collapse, actors are unable to anchor themselves in the present or project themselves into the future. Yet the act of creation is intrinsically linked to time and space, and calls for action. Does making a film mean inscribing oneself in a time, in one’s own time – reappropriated by the making and/or by the filmic narrative? The confrontation is between two distinct temporalities that are nonetheless complementary by default: those of Lebanon and those of cinema.