Out of Focus

IFFR is offering a home-in-exile to the Visual Arts Festival Damascus, since it cannot take place in Syria this year.

This installation presents a vision of a city at a crucial moment of transition. Four videos, each of which presents images from the centre of Beirut in the early 1990s, convey the impression of a panoramic view of the streets of Beirut as the city seems to hold its breath and regain its strength after the end of the Civil War. Located somewhere between fantasy and reality, real and virtual, the images move in an interaction between past and present and draw the observer into an almost physical engagement.
Location: Ai Weiwei Café/Power Cut Installations, Thu 26 – Sat 4, 12:00 – 20:00.