Video

Red Chewing Gum

Akram Zaatari

2000, 10:00 minutes, B&W, Arabic with English subtitles

TAPECODE 406.05

The video takes the form of a letter. It is a reflection on consumption and image making, but also about the end of a relationship between two men. A story of separation is set in the context of the changing Hamra, a neighborhood that was once a booming commercial center.

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Critical Writing

The Singular of Seeing (Al Marra min Nazar)
by Akram Zaatari. HomeWorks: A Forum on Cultural Practices in the Region (Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria), 2003. Beirut: Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, 2003.