This film is from the project Unconformities, comprised of artworks made up from the material of surveyed land, extracted from coring construction sites in Paris, Athens and Beirut. These cores bare their "unconformities"—temporal ruptures, natural disasters, geological movements—in full view, revealing a constant cycle of construction and deconstruction that is the defining feature of civilisations past and present, with each using the stones of the last. History appears not as layers but as actions, a kind of palimpsest mixing epochs and civilizations. These poetic recompositions question the dominant forms of narrating and representing history, but also address debates around the Anthropocene.
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Joana Hadjithomas Director · Khalil Joreige Director Julien Hirsch Cinematographer
First release September 27, 2017 · Produced in France, Lebanon · Original title Palimpsestes
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France · Lebanon
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Original title
Palimpsestes
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
France · September 27, 2017
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