2 documents
Festival Forum: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2020
A Letter to Marguerite
Friday, May 15, 2020
e-flux Film
Category
Film
Subjects
Love
# 43
On the Lebanese Rocket Society
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
It begins with an image we discover in a book. 1 The image is of a stamp with a rocket on it. The rocket bears the colors of the Lebanese flag—an image we don’t recognize, we don’t understand. It does not belong to our imaginary.
What does it show—a weapon, a missile, a rocket for space exploration? Is it serious or just a fantasy? Did the Lebanese really dream of participating in the conquest of space? It’s hard to believe and rather surreal. We ask our parents, our friends … No one…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2013
Category
Film, Photography
Subjects
Outer Space, Middle East, Biography, Science Fiction