Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

Filmmakers and artists, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige work with photography, installations, performance, video and film.

They question the fabrication of images and representations, the construction of imaginaries and the writing of history. Their long-term research is based on personal or political documents, the traces of the invisible and the absent, in stories kept secret such as latencies of wars, a forgotten space project, geological and archaeological undergrounds of cities, or the strange consequences of internet scams and spams. Their award-winning films include Memory Box (2021), Ismyrna (2016), The Lebanese Rocket Society (2012), Je Veux Voir (2008), A Perfect Day (2005)... 

They received the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2017 for their artistic project Unconformities.

Joana and Khalil are both very involved in cultural structures in Lebanon such as Correspondaences, Metropolis and Cinémathèque Beirut.

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