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04/04/2022 - Lena Karbe's Black Mambas won the FACT:AWARD, Ivalo Frank's The Last Human got the NORDIC:DOX Award, Lea Najjar's Kash Kash - Without Feathers We Can't Live bagged the NEW:VISION Award
04/04/2022 - Lena Karbe's Black Mambas won the FACT:AWARD, Ivalo Frank's The Last Human got the NORDIC:DOX Award, Lea Najjar's Kash Kash - Without Feathers We Can't Live bagged the NEW:VISION Award
THE SET OF BASSEM SAAD’S assured, playful, and provocative video Congress of Idling Persons, 2021, is strewn with the accoutrements of pandemic and protest: a tent, a table covered with onions, a spirometer (for testing lung capacity), bottles of medicine that a young woman compulsively cracks open and closes. Some of the objects are for aiding a patient’s recovery from illness, others for enduring protracted demonstrations or mitigating the effects of tear gas. Shot in part inside the theater of a much-loved Beirut cabaret, Congress meticulously braids together three tumultuous events, fo...