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Towards the Sun

Nour Ouayda

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Nour Ouayda, Towards the Sun (still), 2019.

Festival Forum: Images Festival 2021 Towards the Sun
Nour Ouayda
2019

17 Minutes
Lebanon

Festival Forum

Date
May 29–June 11, 2021

Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Nour Ouayda’s Towards the Sun (2019), presented as part of our special feature of Images Festival 2021, and among the six films picked by the festival programmers for e-flux audiences.

You are now in the main hall of the National Museum in Beirut. A guard reminds you that you are encouraged to touch the archeological objects. A voice in your headset suggests that you lick the stone. You are now facing a hole in the wall on the lower left corner of a mosaic. The voice in your headset indicates that it was made by a sniper. Out of curiosity, you dial 1-9-9-1 to listen to the rest of the story.

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This special feature of Images Festival 2021 presents films by Rossella Biscotti, Grau, Darol Olu Kae, Nour Ouayda, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Rina B. Tsou, screening on e-flux Video & Film for two weeks from Saturday, May 29 through Friday, June 11; as well as a conversation with festival programmers Alia Ayman, Robert Lee, and Yasmin Nurming-Por moderated by e-flux’s Lukas Brasiskis. Watch them here.

The program is part of the series Festival Forum on e-flux Video & Film, presenting collaborations with established and emerging moving-image festivals from around the world.

For more information, contact program [​at​] e-flux.com.

Category
Film, Museums, War & Conflict
Subject
Experimental Film, Archeology, Museology
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Nour Ouayda is a filmmaker and film programmer. Her films experiment with various forms of fiction writing in cinema. She is a member of the Camelia Committee with Carine Doumit and Mira Adoumier, and part of the editorial committee of the Montreal-based online film journal Hors Champ. Between 2018 and 2023, she was deputy director at Metropolis Cinema Association in Beirut where she managed and developed the Cinematheque Beirut project.

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