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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...
Play Track Bandcamp / Buy On the night of October 17, 2019, Lebanonâs citizens took to the streets to protest widespread corruption, government ineptitude, and crushing austerity measures. âWe get nothing we pay for,â a protestor told a reporter. âOur basic needs are not met. Enough! Weâre sick of this.â In a nonsectarian display of popular solidarity, more than a million people took part. The atmosphere was hopeful and determined, despite police batons and volleys of tear gas. Within days, the demonstrations succeeded in toppling Prime Minister Saad Hariri...