Akram Zaatari Movies

A reflection on film and television, this video travels the globe mixing footage of real-life war and reel entertainment. COUNTDOWN explores our...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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...