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Hisham BIZRI: Vertices: Beirut-Dublin-Seoul
Documentaire expérimental | dv | couleur et n&b | 0:50:00 | Liban , Korea and Ireland | 2004
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DublinBeruit-Seoul is a multi-screen projection video document for three monitors
and a single screen capturing a day in the life of a city through the medium of
cinema. It is a cultural/historical/personal symphony of cities that have very
different architectures, religions, cultures, sounds, races, gestures, and costumes,
but with shared experiences of a colonial past. With a hidden camera simple scenes
are captured from every day life, following in the tradition of the so-called
documentaries or actualites of the Lumiere films. Each shot lasts approximately
50 seconds, the time a film reel lasted in early cinema because of technological
limitations. The absence of the camera from view allows for a unique insight into
the daily rituals and practices of city life, capturing "life as it is,"
to use Dziga Vertov's term. This kind of cinema witnesses -- through concrete
action and in rich detail -- the presence in time and space of characters, objects,
and cultures.
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Artistic Statement
I work in the tradition of cinema as art. My films have been an attempt to share
with others some of the ideas, experiences, and emotions I have lived. I try to
portray myself as both an artist and a human being through constant experimentation
with new cinematic art forms. In my works, I wish to expand the language of cinema,
one that views cinema as an art form and expands its spatial, temporal, and conceptual
possibilities, giving fresh meanings to contemporary life; to show the lives of
people I care about, real people in their environments with all of their emotions,
their memories, their dreams, and their daily experiences; and last but not least
to express the consciousness of my Arab peoples.
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