Road to Damascus (2015)
(excerpt 1’18”)
composed of archival footage from family VHS recordings that were meant as visual letters to be sent between a family in the US and Lebanon. Through re-editing the videos, taken between the 1980s and 1990s, slippages in the screen memories of this archive begin to present themselves. A clip of a father driving the family through a zoo in Texas, while the digetic audio from the car radio is a report on another war in the region of emigration. Spectors of crisis, imperialism interposed on a narrative of assimilation.
(excerpt 1’18”)
composed of archival footage from family VHS recordings that were meant as visual letters to be sent between a family in the US and Lebanon. Through re-editing the videos, taken between the 1980s and 1990s, slippages in the screen memories of this archive begin to present themselves. A clip of a father driving the family through a zoo in Texas, while the digetic audio from the car radio is a report on another war in the region of emigration. Spectors of crisis, imperialism interposed on a narrative of assimilation.
