Stranger than Fiction
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Introducing
Stranger than Fiction is a screening series, programmed by Nour Ouayda, on the ways observational images produce speculative fiction, in times marked by major disruptions and transformations. Taking her own practice as a starting point, she calls on other works that explore a similar gesture across various times and territories. In this Brussels iteration, Stranger than Fiction will include films by Miryam Charles, Reeda Fneiche, Lara Tabet & Nour Ouayda.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Nour Ouayda (programmer and filmmaker of The Secret Garden) and Carine Doumit (co-writer and editor of The Secret Garden).
Introducing
Stranger than Fiction is a screening series, programmed by Nour Ouayda, on the ways observational images produce speculative fiction, in times marked by major disruptions and transformations. Taking her own practice as a starting point, she calls on other works that explore a similar gesture across various times and territories. In this Brussels iteration, Stranger than Fiction will include films by Miryam Charles, Reeda Fneiche, Lara Tabet & Nour Ouayda.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Nour Ouayda (programmer and filmmaker of The Secret Garden) and Carine Doumit (co-writer and editor of The Secret Garden).
Undergrowth
Reeda Fneiche
Lebanon, 2024, VO st EN
“Undergrowth” is an experimental short that captures a night of unsettling stillness looking through a bedroom window, at a seemingly innocuous bush across the street.
Resilience Overflow
Lara Tabet
Lebanon, 2023, 16’, VOEN, st AR
Resilience Overflow is a multifold project based on the construction of a genetically modified bacterial strain in collaboration with the molecular environmental microbiology laboratory at the national center of biotechnology in Madrid. The bacterium, isolated from the artist’s gut, is genetically engineered to incorporate and produce the Human Neuropeptide Y, a gene linked to human resilience, and becomes a microscopie drug-producing factory. The project speculates on releasing the strain into the Beirut water system, thus questioning resilience as a political pretext and looking at the role of the individual in the absence of the state as well as possible modes of alliances between the human and the microbiological world.
Vole, vole tristesse (Fly, Fly Sadness)
Miryam Charles
Canada, Haiti, 2015, 6’
Following a nuclear explosion that transforms the voice of all the inhabitants of an island, a Finnish journalist goes there in order to find a hermit with mysterious powers.
The Secret Garden
Nour Ouayda
Lebanon, 2023, 27’, VO st FR/EN
The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start taking place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.
