Inhabiting Beirut
2023
45 min
Film
4 août 2020 : Explosion à Beyrouth L’association de ces mots n’a en soi rien d’étonnant. Beyrouth explose depuis toujours. C’est une ville intimement liée à la guerre. Et pourtant cette explosion n’est pas comme les autres. Elle concentre toutes crises du pays et résume toutes les guerres qu’il a traversées. À travers des témoignages, des images et des sons recueillis auprès d’habitants qui ont vécu ceDe épreuve, ce film s’intéresse à l’explosion comme expérience intime et intérieure.
August 4, 2020: Explosion in Beirut. The association of these words is not surprising in itself. Beirut has always been prone to explosions. It is a city intimately linked to war. And yet this explosion is unlike any other. It encapsulates all the country's crises and summarizes all the wars it has endured. Through testimonies, images, and sounds gathered from residents who lived through this ordeal, this film explores the explosion as an intimate and internal experience.
Michel Tabet is a filmmaker and anthropologist (CNRS-Ifpo) whose approach lies at the intersec;on of documentary and social sciences. He has devoted much of his work to social and religious issues in the Arab world (Lebanon, Syria, Algeria, Tunisia) and is currently working on the ques;on of crises and disasters in Lebanon and Iraq. He is involved in various inicialves that connect anthropology and cinema (Jean Rouch Fes;val in Paris and Tunis, Aswat Festival in Lebanon, Haizebegi in Bayonne), where he contributes to programming and training. His filmography includes Méditerranée (France, 2020), Voices from Kasserine (Tunisia, 2017), and Les larmes de Hussein (Lebanon, 2006).