THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 12:30 – 1:30 PM

Tour of the exhibition with Johnny el-Alam (in English)

Johnny el-Alam is an Art History practicum student at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. He is currently completing an M.A. in Art History at Carleton University’s School for Studies in Art and Culture. His field of research is the effect of war on art.

Johnny’s tour will focus on representations of Lebanese war trauma in the works of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige.

Light refreshments will be served.

JE VEUX VOIR
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21, AT 7:30 PM

at the Goethe-Institut Montréal Screening of the feature film Je veux voir (I want to see) by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Free Admission

Goethe-Institut Montréal
418 Sherbrooke Street East (at St-Denis)
Metro Sherbrooke
24 Bus

JE VEUX VOIR (I WANT TO SEE)
July 2006. A war breaks out in Lebanon. A new war, but not just one more war. A war that crushes the hopes of peace and the momentum of our generation. We no longer know what to write, what stories to recount, what images to show. We ask ourselves, “What can cinema do?” We decide to translate that question into reality. We go to Beirut with an “icon,” Catherine Deneuve, an actress who to us symbolizes cinema. She will meet our favourite actor, Rabih Mroué. Together they will drive through regions devastated by conflict. Through their meeting and their presence, we hope to uncover beauty that we no longer see. It is the beginning of an unexpected and unpredictable adventure . . .

Lebanon/France, 2008
Directors: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Rabih Mroué
Duration: 75 min.
In French and Arabic with French subtitles

SCREENING
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, AT 9 PM

Screening of Cendres (2003) and A Perfect Day (2005), both by Hadjithomas and Joreige at the Cinémathèque Québécoise.

Cendres
Director: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige [FR-LB, 2003, 26 min, 35 mm, Original with French subtitles) with Ali Cherri, Georges Hayeck, Nada Heddad

Nabil returns to Beirut with the ashes of his father who died after being hospitalized abroad. He attempts to mourn amidst a family who insists on a traditional burial for a body that no longer exists.

A Perfect Day
Director: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige [FR-LB-DE, 2005, 88 min, 35 mm, Original with French subtitles] with Ziad Saad, Julia Kassar, Alexandra Kahwagi

Twenty-four hours in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep apnea, in present-day Beirut. After persuading his mother to announce the death of his father 15 years earlier, he roams the city in search of ex-girlfriend Zeina. “In a sophisticated production oscillating between sensuality and abstraction, the story unfolds within a superb framework, like a musical score, in which the rhythm is provided by Beirut, city in permanent turmoil, marked by frenetic destruction and construction, air pollution, and exhilarating nights.” (Isabelle Regnier, 2006)

In the presence of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. Program organized in collaboration with the Cinémathèque québécoise.

Cinémathèque québécoise admission fees.

La Cinémathèque québécoise
335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est
metro Berri-UQAM

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11, FROM 4 PM

As part of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal the artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige will discuss their work and CIBL Radio-Montréal’s Le 4 à 6 culturel will be broadcast live from the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.