Landmarks of Memory

A tattoo ritual and hookah session memorializes a pre-war flower shop. After seeing its storefront in archival footage of the Lebanese Civil War, a first-generation daughter seeks information and connection to place. Scenes of 1976 Beirut are paired with today’s developed landscape, while roses are etched and coconut coals burn in a snowy diasporic setting.

Film Maker
Hajjar, Christina
Year
2023
Country
Canada
Length
6
Language
Arabic, English
Category
Arab, art & artists, body, Childhood, Class-struggle, Diaspora, Ecology, environment, Essay, Ethnography, Families, Feminism, gay, Identity, Immigration, Landscape, Language, lesbian, LGBTQ, media studies, Memory, Mental Health, Mortality, Nature, Oral Histories, Portraits, Race + Ethnicity, Time + Space, Urban, Violence, War + Conflict, Work about Women, Work by Women
Genre
documentary, experimental, Installation, queer, short

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