The Lebanese Rocket Society.
Joana Hadjithomas + Khalil Joreige, 2012.
SCREENINGS
THE LEBANESE ROCKET SOCIETY (2012)
Joana Hadjithomas + Khalil Joreige
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LECTURE-PERFORMANCE / LAUNCH
“RRR&R on LRS”
Khalil Joreige
PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE RIDM
SCREENINGS
THE LEBANESE ROCKET SOCIETY (2012)
Joana Hadjithomas + Khalil Joreige
Friday November 15, 5:30 pm, Cinéma du Parc 2
Saturday November 16, 3 pm, Cinéma du Parc 3
Ticket purchase and information
Lebanon: space exploration pioneer? The film’s title is the name of the real life Lebanese space program founded in the 1960s. Artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, who directed Catherine Deneuve in I Want to See, unearthed everything they could find about this forgotten history. There would have been a fascinating film in a simple historical investigation based on rare archival footage and interviews with key players. This film is much more: the directors built a model of one of the original rockets, and this becomes the centrepiece of an artistic performance featured in the film. The elegant object, exhibited throughout Lebanon, embodies both the pan-Arab dream and the fear of war, past and present.
Quebec premiere.
Arabic, English, French / French Subtitles /
95 minutes
LECTURE-PERFORMANCE / LAUNCH
“RRR&R on LRS”
Khalil Joreige
Saturday November 16, 6 pm, Café-bar /
RIDM headquarters 3450, rue St-Urbain
FREE ADMISSION
To celebrate the launch of the new monograph, Joana Hadjithomas + Khalil Joreige, published by JRP Ringier and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery of Concordia University, you are invited to a reading of “RRR&R on LRS” in which Khalil Joreige, co-director of The Lebanese Rocket Society, reflects on the rewriting of certain historical events and the construction of imagination, and tries to reactivate that past in the present through what he calls “reconstitution, re-enactment and restaging.” In French.
The publication Joana Hadjithomas + Khali Joreige will be available at this event for the special price of $40, cash only.