RAW Material Company invites you to a public lecture with half of the Lebanese filmmaking duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige on Wednesday November 6th, 2019 at 6pm.

"The Lebanese Civil Wars collapsed the binary between fiction and documentary for violence affects representations, images and narrations. In the specific context of post-war Beirut, what was real seemed sometimes implausible, and the possibility of fiction was put into question.

It is so difficult to define the "real." Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are constantly looking for its manifestations, symptoms and appearances. What interests us is what is alive, what is close to “life”. So when they speak of the real, of reality, of fiction, they are in fact speaking of trying to make images or narrations they can believe in, trying to show what is invisible, or impossible to see..."

About Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige

The Lebanese filmmakers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige interweave thematic, conceptual and formal links through photographs, video installations, fictional films and documentaries. Self-taught, they became filmmakers and artists through necessity in the wake of the Lebanese civil wars and consider themselves as researchers. Their very personal oeuvre, based on their various encounters, has led them to explore the realm of the visible and of absence, leading to a back-and-forth between life and fiction.