in the void

4 minutes 45 seconds video project done within the DasArts studies individual trajectory, 2004
Performed by Mayssa' Husseini
Location: "Layla pub", gemayezeh - Beirut
''all round the tinted glass facades of the buildings are like-faces with frosted surfaces. It is as though there were no one inside the buildings, as if there were no one behind the faces. And there really is no one.''
Jean Baudrillard.

feeling lonely among a crowed in my post-war home city of Beirut, and in a temporal situation of detachment in Amsterdam as a peregrine stranger; I am currently surviving an urban solitude and civic nonchalance, feeling dizzy, numb, empty in a labyrinth of an overwhelming urban structure. I sometime find myself lost between the two cities, not knowing exactly where I am, mixing up aspects from both places while trying to reconstruct my memories, reconstruct my image, and even reconstruct my physical existence; my body becomes more of a burden to take care of, and maintain, hygienically, esthetically and culturally, to reconstruct a different image of myself according to the demands of the different entourage.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Hassan
• Choubassi
• Beirut
• Lebanon
• DasArts
• non-places
• lost
• in
• the
• city