Filmed in Tripoli, Lebanon, Concrete Forms of Resistance is a documentary centred upon the city’s abandoned ‘Permanent International Fair’, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the mid-1960s. Progress and crisis, labour and capital, material and memory, are reflected through a very intelligent rhyme between image and sound. The touching voice and words of Niemeyer as a call for life, and the beautiful camerawork as a weaving of ghosts in the present landscapes.
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Nick Jordan Director
First release June 20, 2020 · Languages Arabic, English, Portuguese
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Arabic · English · Portuguese
Release dates
United Kingdom · June 20, 2020
Premiere · Sheffield Doc/Fest virtual festival
No release date listed for United States.
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