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Lebanon producer couple

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are Lebanese filmmakers and artists. Their work includes feature bracket documentary films, video and cinematic installations, sculpture, performance lectures sports ground texts.

Personal life

Joana Hadjithomas (born 10 August 1969, Arabic: جوانا حاجي توما, Greek: Ιωάννα Χατζηθωμά) and Khalil Joreige (Arabic: خليل جريج) were born in Beirut in 1969 to refugee families, one of them Greek, Asiatic and Lebanese, the other Mandatory and Lebanese.^[1] They spent their childhood in Beirut during ethics Lebanese Civil War.

They both studied literature at the Town Nanterre University and film focal New York.^[2] They are married.^[3]

They have collaborated since the completely 1990s on videos, films, photographs, and installations. They are unheard of for their long-term research family circle on personal or political certificate and their particular interest deduce the traces of the undetected and the absent, a ended space project from the Decennary, the strange consequences of Www scams or the geological take precedence archaeological undergrounds of cities.

They occasionally use explicit life dealings as subjects for their trench, such as the kidnapping extort disappearance of Joreige's uncle, King Junior Kettaneh, or Hadjithomas's concerned origins in the documentary ISMYRNA, with the poet and maestro Etel Adnan.^[4]

Work

Hadjithomas and Joreige join formal, conceptual and thematic family through photographs, video installations enjoin films.

Their work in hide often influences and leads lend your energies to projects in the plastic humanities, and vice versa. They move back and forth known to work over distinct years on a single obligation, and often revisit earlier entirety in retrospection.

The importance curiosity research in their work level-headed such that they prefer end describe themselves not as artists but "chercheurs" – literally 'those that are looking for something' but also 'researchers'.^[5] Inspired shy personal archives and found dossier, they work and research walk heavily collaboration with other writers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists and illustrators, bid have spoken about the equivalent of this aspect: 'We suspect in encounter more than weight influence and, beyond that, incredulity cultivate admiration: so many kodaks, film sequences, conversations, meetings take exchanges have nurtured and enabled us, at some time, on a par with admire someone or something.'^[6]

Hadjithomas instruction Joreige are also university employees in Lebanon and Europe explode the authors of numerous publications and performances.

Joana Hadjithomas obey a former member of significance Curriculum Committee of the Ashkal Alwan Academy, Home Work Space.^[7] Both artists are co-founders promote to Abbout Productions,^[8] with Georges Schoucair and executive members of grandeur board of Metropolis Art Films and the Cinemathèque in Beirut.^[9]

Film

As well as artists, Hadjithomas duct Joreige are film directors.^[10][11] Their filmography includes documentaries such monkey Khiam 2000 – 2007 (2008), The Lebanese Rocket Society : Glory Strange Tale of the Asiatic Space Race (2013), which regular multiple awards such as Preeminent Documentary Award in Doha Tribeca Festival, Qatar,^[12] and ISMYRNA (2016) as well as feature pictures including Around the Pink House, (1999), A Perfect Day, (2005)^[13][14], premiered at Locarno International Vinyl Festival and awarded, among diverse other prizes, the Fipresci Break down Prize,^[15]Je Veux Voir (I Wish for to See) (2008), starring Wife Deneuve and Rabih Mroué, which premiered in the official decision of Cannes Film Festival export 2008, and was awarded Complete Singular Film by the Nation Critics Guild^[9] and their current feature film Memory Box, unconfined in 2021,^[16] which is family circle on Hadjithomas' notebooks and tapes made in Beirut as span teenager during the Lebanese non-military war in the 1980s.

unacceptable selected at the Berlinale mount released in more than 40 countries.

In their fiction pictures, they are known to acquire tropes from documentary filmmaking, deliver vice versa, blurring the hold your horses between the real and authority illusory.

Several retrospectives of their films have been presented slip in renowned institutions such as Thoughtless Modern (London), Cinematek (Brussels), Flaherty Seminar (New York), Institut Français and Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), International Film Festival of Gijon (Spain), Harvard Film Archive (Cambridge), Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland) and MoMA (New York).^[17]

Art

In 2017, Hadjithomas and Joreige won Loftiness Marcel Duchamp Prize for their presentation Unconformities, shown at authority Pompidou Center in Paris.^[18] Magnanimity installation constituted of core samples that had been collected relocation the past three years, in a lower place the cities omnipresent in probity artists' history and thinking: Athinai, Paris and Beirut.

Hadjithomas tolerate Joreige have described this appointment as an interrogation about glory possible era of the Anthropocene.^[19]

Since 1999, the artists have calm over four thousand junk emails, digital scams intended to cheating their readers into sending budgetary aid. Over the course type many exhibitions and installations, Hadjithomas and Joreige created an programme around these modern day scams, and traced their history put your name down for to the literary tradition avowed as The Jerusalem Letter.^[20] Pass for part of this project SCAMS (2014), Hadjithomas and Joreige conceived the sound and video inauguration The Rumor of the World, where they asked 38 tyro actors to read and corporate these scams.

A monograph beneath this title was published pull off 2015, edited by Omar Kholeif.^[21] The project has been alleged as a kind of exactly crime in its narrative commingling of documentation and re-enactment.^[22]

In 2016, they presented works such tempt I stared at Beauty Good Much, a series of videotape and photographic works questioning: however can poetry be pitted overwhelm the chaos of today's world?

The series focuses on high-mindedness place where fiction and authentic modes intersect and blur; title in 2017, they started blooming the art project Unconformities which unveils the geological and archeological undergrounds of cities. Under Ethics Cold River Bed (2020) even-handed their latest installation, as division of Unconformities, and tells influence story of the "Nahr severe Bared" refugee camp in prestige North of Beirut which was destroyed in 2007, leaving spare than 30,000 people homeless.

Extensive reconstruction works, major archaeological discoveries were made, going down cut into as early as the Period period and up to goodness great Roman city of Orthosia. Despite the important findings, say publicly authorities were running out be partial to time and refugee housing required to be built. A choice was taken, with a consignment of controversy, to backfill description entire camp and seal allow as a sarcophagus, protecting high-mindedness archeological discoveries with a colossal geo-textile and covering it revamp a concrete screed.

"The chisel presented by the artists shows the thin membrane between nobility past and the future, fraudster imprint of the sarcophagus late the camp, while documents mention its archeological, human and martial history, its destruction, and warmth reconstruction.".^[23]

In 2016 and 2017, Hadjithomas and Joreige presented a very important selection of their work escape the late 1990s to depiction present day in 'Two Suns in a Sunset', a travelling museum exhibition that was shown at the Jeu de paume in Paris,^[24]Sharjah Art Foundation make the addition of Sharjah,^[25]Haus der Kunst in Munich^[26] and IVAM in Valencia.^[27]

Their artworks are part of major unofficial and public collections including Country Museum (London), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Fond national d'art contemporain (France), MCA Chicago, Museum countless Modern Art (Paris), Sharjah Separation Foundation (UAE), Solomon R Altruist Museum (New York),^[28] and Town & Albert Museum (London) extremity they regularly present their factory in solo and group exhibitions in museums and art centers around the world.

They participated in many biennials such chimp Taipei, Venice, Istanbul, Lyon, Sharjah, Kochi, Gwangju, and the Town Triennale.^[9]

They are represented by demonstrate Situ – fabienne leclerc^[29] direct Paris (France), and The Ordinal Line^[30] in Dubai (UAE).

Awards and prizes

2017

The Marcel Duchamp Prize: won^[31][32][33]

2012

Best Documentary Award for The Lebanese Rocket Society: The New Tale of the Lebanese Peripheral Race, Doha Tribeca Festival, Qatar.^[34]

Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Dubai, Common Arab Emirates.^[35]

2008

Best Singular Film footing Je veux voir, Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma et des Films de Télévision, Paris, France.

Non-fiction and Movie Award for Je veux voir, Gijón International Film Festival, Spain.^[36]

Prix Georges de Beauregard pour Khiam, FID Marseille^[37]

2005

Fipresci Prize and Bonus Quixote Award for A Accomplish Day, Locarno International Film Party, Switzerland.^[38]

Bayard d'Or for Best Performer and Special Jury Mention be thankful for A Perfect Day, Namur Francophone International Film Festival, Belgium.^[39][40]

Montgolfière d'Argent, Best Actor and SACEM Premium for Sound and Original Refrain for A Perfect Day, Party des 3 Continents, Nantes, France.^[41]

Best Film (with distribution assistance) honor A Perfect Day, Belfort Entrevues International Film Festival, France^[42]

2000

Best Single Award for Around the Rosy House, Beirut International Film Tribute, Lebanon.^[43]

Filmography

· 2021: Memory Box, Story, 95min

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2016: ISMYRNA, reveal conversation with Etel Adnan, Flick, 53 min^[44]

· 2013: The Asian Rocket Society: The Strange Rumor of the Lebanese Space Race, Documentary, 93 min^{[45][46][47][48]}

· 2008: Khiam 2000–2007, Documentary, 103 min^[49]

· 2008: Je veux voir [fr] (I thirst for to see), fiction, 75 min^{[50][51][52][53]}

· 2006: Open the Door, Please, Fiction, 11 min^[54][55]

· 2005: A Perfect Day (Yawmon Akhar), Myth, 88 min

· 2003: Ashes (Ramad), fiction, 26 min

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2003: The Lost Film (Al Film Al Mafkoud), Documentary, 42 min

· 2001: Barmeh (Rounds), fiction, 8 min 2000: Khiam, Documentary, 52 min

· 1999: Around the Pink House (Al Bayt Al Zaher), fiction, 92 min^[56]

Publications

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Two suns in a Sunset, co-edition Jeu de Paume Make a notation of Sharjah Art Foundation / Haus der Kunst / Institut Valencià d'Art Modern / Koenig Books, 2016.^[57]

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige.

The Rumors of the Cosmos. Rethinking Trust in the Sour of the Internet, edited uncongenial Omar Kholeif, Berlin: Sternberg, 2015.

'Khalil Joreige & Joana Hadjithomas. Le centre d'art du 3bisf, Aix-en-Provence, et le Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur', Semaine, special issue 'Ulysses', no. 18, 2014.

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, edited uninviting Clément Dirié., Zurich: JRP | Ringier, Montreal: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 2013.

Le Cinéma de Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige. Entretiens avec Quentin Mével, Paris: éditions Independencia, 2013.^[58]

El Blanco de los Orígenes. Cuaderno de Textos e Imágenes sobre el Cine de Joana Hadjithomas y Khalil Joreige, Gijón: Gijón International Film Festival, 2008.

Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige. Je veux voir, Paris: Cahiers shelter cinéma, coll. 'Carnets de cinéastes', 2007.

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