Portraying War in Times of War: Between the Visible and Invisible Lecture by Ghada Sayegh
Through the study of Lebanese cinema of the civil war, this lecture attempts to look at the descriptive styles and new visualizations that were introduced by the war via the dialectic of the visible and invisible. It also attempts to define the extent of the historical involvement of these visions.
Maroun Baghdadi Haneen min Ard el-Harb (Nostalgia from the Land of War) 1980. Color. 30'. Arabic
Through the words of Nadia Tueni, Maroun Baghdadi addresses, by means of his 1980 film, the cartography of a nation in ruins and delivers to us the destiny of a lost generation. A state of places tainted by poetry and nostalgia, the memory of decomposed time...
Ghada Sayegh is a Ph.D Candidate in Cinema Studies at Université Paris 10 - Nanterre. Her dissertation research focuses on the representation of space-time of war in Lebanese Cinema. She is also the Director of Studies at the Institut d'Etudes Scéniques, Audiovisuelles et Cinématographiques (IESAV).
