Akram Zaatari Movies

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...

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...

In the courtyard of an old house in Saida, a woman is rehearsing a scene from a movie. She introduces her family, and the camera records both...

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

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

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...

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...

"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...