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Ten Years After the Arab Spring

Ten years ago, Arab protesters reclaimed the public space for the first time in decades, sparking an explosion of defiant artistic and cultural expressions against the authoritarian powers. A decade on, the reality has drastically changed in many Arab and European cities in the aftermath of exile, violent crackdown, conflicts, mass displacement and dispossession of millions of Arab citizens.

This event is in collaboration with Masahat and Kunstplass.

About the film

“Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely” is the dystopia-as-documentary rather than as fiction. For many inhabitants of this world, the apocalypse is not a future possibility but a historical reality. The short documentary essay explores Beirut’s overlooked and marginalized areas that were also affected by the blast on August 4, 2020. These areas sit on both sides of the Beirut river’s banks. The river became a conductor for the blast’s wave due to its length and the fact that it is devoid of barriers. The film refers to the 4th of August, 2020, as the day the world ended. Yet, reality in this area kept on in an apocalyptic state: a global pandemic, deadly pollution, desolate neighborhoods, financial meltdown, resource scarcity, and food shortage.

It's as if the explosion came to announce the end of the world. There is nowhere to go, no refuge, no scent to the flowers that grow over human limbs, and nothing to be said for the end of the world. Even the river that never ceases to flow to the sea is dead. In this moment of staggering impotence, how does one make a film about the end of the world? Silence is perhaps darkness' last friend.


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