Offical Competition Documentary

Synopsis

Partly a study of the of a photographer’s studio practice in the mid twentieth century and partly an exploration of the essence of archives today, this film tries to understand how did this mode of producing images, functioned in the lives of communities it served, and how it seized to exist and what did it lead to?

Technical details

Duration: 105 minutes
Nationality: lebanon
Production year: 2015
Director: Akram Zaatari
Screenplay: Akram ZaatariAkram Zaatari
Director of Photography: Akram Zaatari, Mark Khalife, Bassem Fayad
Editor: Jowe Harfouche
Sound:Karine Bacha, Rana Eid
Email : akramzaatari@yahoo.com

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born in 1966 in Sidon Lebanon, he studied architecture and graduated from the American University of Beirut. In 1997 he co-founded the Arab Image Foundation. This was the beginning of a long journey, in a completely different field, to collect and study a history of photography.