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Merely a Smell

by Maher Abi Samra

Summer 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. A boat embarks on a besieged Beirut to evacuate foreign nationals. From under the rubble of destroyed buildings, relief workers pull the bodies of the dead. Moving between light and darkness, life and its extinction, bodies redraw the boundaries of other bodies, the smell of death cloaking all.

[Video, 10 minutes]

Merely a Smell was produced as part of Video Works and presented in the framework of Time Lapse video programme, VidéoAvril festival, Beirut, 2007

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The film unravels in a poetic and filmic way the daily work, which has to be done in between the bombings. Few images and even less sound takes us inside of a routine in which in the end the car is always too small to carry so many coffins

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Ashkal Alwan Lebanese Association for the Plastic Arts

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