Palimpsets | Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Commissioned & produced by Onassis Culture
Palimpsests is a short film that takes place over several sites across Beirut, and records the various processes used in order to create the drilling cores, notably the manner in which the material is sorted in order to determine the suitability of the foundations. Palimpsests plays with scales of time and size: the massive confronts the miniscule, and the viewer passes from the macro to the microscopic.
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“A scopic drift, the video Palimpsests offers a ballet, both vertical and horizontal, and questions the forms of representations and the issue of scale. It expresses these tense interactions between mechanical and geological forces, the buried remains and the arising history, the infinitely small and the infinitely big but also evokes ruptures, disasters and regenerations, from the past to our troubled present.” (Clément Dirié)
Palimpsests, 2017
Part 4 of Unconformities
by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Video HD, 12m 40s
Editing : Tina Baz
Image : Talal Khoury, Joe Saade, Julien Hirsch, Khalil Joreige
Microscope images : Ian Walker, Bernardo Cesare
Sound : Rana Eid (Studio DB)
Music : Charbel Haber, The Bunny Tyler
Grading and lab : Belal Hibri, Lucid
Thanks : Mille et une productions et Abbout Productions
Palimpsests is part of the project UNCONFORMITIES
Courtesy Galerie In Situ / fabienne leclerc (Paris) and The Third Line (Dubai)
