The will to love, the suffocation, and the leave/ stay dilemma, were the only inspirations that I had before going through the video. Few months after leaving Beirut, I got back to do this video, I hoped that few months was sufficient to be distant and put myself again in the game of the senses that I always have with the city. the anxiety is somehow collective, the undefined future is irritating, the fears from others, and the urban reality that becomes hypnotic and suffocating.

 

Produced by Färgfabriken as part of the project "New Urban Topologies", Beirut - Mostar - Stockholm

Filmed, edited and directed by: Ali Beidoun

Duration 14 minutes, Beirut 2014