Tshweesh
Feyrouz Serhal (Lebanon)
Col / 26' 00"/ In Arabic with English subtitles
The soccer World Cup kicks off today and the people of Beirut are eager for the long-awaited event. While life moves on normally in such a day, the signal of the first match seems to be disrupted by strange audio waves. The frustration in the air builds up giving way to a bigger
live event.
Artist’s Statement
Lidia in ‘Tshweesh’ walks in Beirut after she has walked in Milan in Antonioni’s ‘La Notte’ in 1961, and as Lidia felt nostalgic in the old neighbourhood in Milan then, Lidia walks and fears for the old buildings in Beirut now. When Lidia looks up and sees the planes in the sky of Milan in 1961, she doesn’t know that many years in the future she will walk in Beirut and look up to see Israeli planes instead.
