July Trip

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The Electric Press
17 November • 6.15pm

Beirut, July 2006. The Israeli bombings strike Lebanon. Waël Noureddine begins a journey across his country. July Trip questions the underlying principles of the documentary genre, capturing a country in a state of terror and recording the immediate effects of the war on civilians.

Etel Adnan: Words in Exile

(Etel Adnan: Eksoristes Lekseis)
Dir. Vouvoula Skoura
Greece, 2007, 52 mins
UK Premiere

A unique portrait of Beirut born writer Etel Adnan through visual fragments, a multiplicity of languages, people and identities. Of mixed Christian and Muslim parentage, she studied in the Sorbonne and Harvard to hone a hybrid perspective nurtured between East and West.

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