Mar Sarkis And Bacchus Video Art

Description from alexyfr.org:

Mar Sarkis And Bacchus Video Art was originally a commission for the Antonine Coventry, I was provided pictures from the monastery's archive and photographs taken by Joseph Chahid Douaihy (Bou Chahid). The soundtrack was the operetta of Saint Charbel and in the second part of the video Syriac Chant.

The film was intended to be 150 years commemorative for the Zgharta Monastery. This monastery is considered very "recent" compared to the age of the Monastery in Ehden.

Directives were very unclear, so as part of a package, later on unpaid, was this video. After work completion, Father Nader Nader rejected the work, pretending the need for a documentary, a thing out of scope and specialty.

My artist friends encouraged me to keep the work as a personal artistic achievement despite the monasteries rejection. And so happened, I considered the project as a personal artwork reflecting a very subjective religious view.

The film starts with an aerial dive, the with still images depicting the "recent" monastery of Zgharta, and few old photos while the operetta plays.

In the second part, the video deals with the Ehden Monastery (more than 600 years old); showing pictures and engravings of this monastery and of Ehden, with a tremendous rare Syriac Chant performance.

The third part is an addition I proposed, since most of the pictures had no people in, so I showed pictures of the archive containing people, again with an extract of the already used soundtrack in part one, in order to show the tight integration between locals and monasteries throughout history.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Lebanon
• Lebanese
• Liban
• Loubnan
• Lebnan
• Ehden
• Zgharta
• Bacchus
• Sarkis
• Maronite
• Catholic
• Christian
• Church

[charles2259]

wonderful great video we need more . Mar sakis and bakhos be with us and save us, keep your mercy on Lebanon the land of the ceader

[aboelnoun]

wonderful

ya mar charbel se3edna !