Video

How I Love You

Akram Zaatari

2001, 29:48 minutes, B&W, Arabic w Eng. s.t.

TAPECODE 406.06

It is an exploration of sexuality among gay men in Lebanon. A couple and three characters talk about their sexual life, about commitments and failures, about their relationships to their bodies, about their passions and love in a society where homosexuality is still punished with imprisonment. The video uses light to produce a white veil that obstructs seeing, hence rendering character identification almost impossible. Through this obstruction, what might be viewed as ordinary homosexual relationships is received with a reminder: a right that is not yet granted.

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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.