Akram Zaatari Movies

‘Objects of War’ is a series of testimonials on the Lebanese war. Each person chooses an object, ordinary or unusual, which serves as a...

A journalist and a photographer drift on their way between Beirut and Baalbeck. Their journey is repeated three times in three different ways to...

GIFT discusses the idea of public space : on a public beach, right across from a residential block, a young boy begs the filmmaker to let him join...

TEACH ME is an interpretation of iconic images. This short essay is built on the ascription of a new meaning to TV news footage. The mingling of news...

In 1998, Akram Zaatari interviewed Egyptian photographer Van Leo in Cairo. In 2001 he made the video Her + Him Van Leo and based it on the story of a...

This work deals with the discovery of light and of its power to reconstruct images. Through a boy who discovers the possibilities of framing and...

Set in the industrial suburbs of Beirut, Majnounak explores male sexuality through interviews with men who recount one of their sexual relationships....

Lebanese artist-filmmaker Zaatari conducts both an investigation and a stirring tribute to an act of resistance (or forbearance) that marked his...

The Script is born out of the artist’s research into online content connected with the Arab world. Exploring YouTube using relatively neutral...

Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem explores the work of photographer Hashem el Madani, who has run a commercial photography studio in southern Lebanon...

In a city post-apocalypse, young men communicate only through smart devices. They make home out of urban debris. They can’t speak to each...

Shot on Gouraud Street in Gemayzeh and edited by Zaatari in Beirut, Lebanon.

RED CHEWING GUM recounts a story of separation between two men. It is a video letter that is set in the context of the changing Hamra, a formerly...

This is a recording of a silent moment, in which 2 men prepare themselves for a military action. While the older one leaves in the end, weapon to his...

On Photography, People and Modern Times is a two-channel video installation that tracks photographic records that Akram Zaatari researched and...

Taking the idea of loss and dispossession as a starting point, this film is a reflection on photography and its people. It looks at the position of...

Unravels a dual journey – extroverted in place, introverted in memory. Beginning with a photograph taken in the 1950s by historian Jibrail...

A late night online chat between two men who haven't met since the turn of the millennium leads to their reunion after ten years of separation. The...

"Zaatari got his start in the freewheeling and somewhat rough-and-tumble world of Lebanese television in the mid-1990s. Zaatari was hired in 1995 as...