Part of GHASSAN SALHAB: UNTITLED, THEN WITH

Ghassan Salhab
(POSTHUMOUS) / (POSTHUME)
2007, 31 min, DCP. In Arabic with English subtitles.
“Not long after the Israeli attack of 2006, Ghassan Salhab directed this filmic essay; its images are both absent and present witnesses to an unexpected war. A cinematographic musing on contemporary Lebanon and a wager on the impossibility of recounting the violence of a bruised country, whose ghosts reappear from the ruins and stare at the screen, before disappearing in cross-fade.” –VISIONS DU RÉEL

Ghassan Salhab
NO TITLE
2025, 42 min, DCP. In Arabic with English subtitles.
“[NO TITLE is] a car-bound survey of utterly devastated sites in South Lebanon following the 2024 Israeli airstrikes. In many respects this film can be viewed as an extension of [Salhab’s CONTRETEMPS (2024)], an afterword necessitated by ongoing escalations beyond the cinema screen. It is not to reveal too much about NO TITLE to cite its closing statement, a gnomic endnote that hints at the unfathomably endless horrors of Israel’s war: ‘still today’.” –ALCHEMY FILM & ARTS

Total running time: ca. 75 min.