e-flux presents True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs
Walid Raad
1999
16 Minutes
Date
April 6–19, 2021
Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Walid Raad’s The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs (1999), on view from Tuesday, April 6 through Monday, April 19, 2021.
This three-part video project investigates the possibilities and limits of writing a history of the Lebanese civil wars (1975-1991). The videos offer accounts of the fantastic situations that beset a number of individuals, though they do not document what happened. Rather, they explore what can be imagined, what can be said, what can be taken for granted, what can appear as rational, sayable, and thinkable about the wars.
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs is presented here as one of four films in Part Five | Faux Documentary and Complex Reality the last of five programs in the online series True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films programmed by Lukas Brasiskis for e-flux Video & Film.
True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films runs from February 9 through April 19, 2021. The films in each part will screen for two weeks with a repeat screening of films in all programs on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com.