Jayce
Salloum
"untitled,"
recent works by Jayce Salloum
UNTITLED PART 2: BEAUTY AND THE EAST (EXCERPT)
(2002) Directed by Jayce Salloum
In a kaleidoscope of interviews from the former Yugoslavia, refugees,
migrants, asylum seekers and residents address topics ranging from
identity and fascism to optimism and monsters. In both anecdotal and
theoretical
recountings, they lay out the issues currently at stake in this region
of displacement and redefinition. 25 min.
UNTITLED PART 3B: (AS IF) BEAUTY NEVER ENDS
(2002) Directed by Jayce Salloum
Ambient images‹orchids blooming, plants growing, clouds and
water are superimposed over raw footage of the carnage at the Sabra
and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon after the 1982 massacre, with
the voiceover of
Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a 1948 refugee living in Bourg El Barajneh
camp) recounting a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine.
11 min.
UNTITLED PART 1: EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
(2001) Directed by Jayce Salloum
An intimate dialogue with ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter
Soha Bechara in Paris, taped (during the last year of the Israeli
occupation) one year after her release from captivity in El-Khiam
torture and interrogation
centre in Lebanon where she was detained for 10 years, six in isolation.
41 min.
Total running time: 77 min.
