Ali Cherri
Ali CHERRI (1976, Lebanon) graduated in Graphic Design from the American University in Beirut. He moved to the Netherlands to complete his studies with a Master’s degree in Performing Arts at DasArts in Amsterdam. His work varies from video to multimedia installation and performances, shown in solo and group exhibitions. Cherri’s installation Of Men and Gods and Mud (2022) received a Silver Lion at the 59th Venice Biennale. He is a recipient of Harvard University’s Robert E. Fulton Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation Award and the Abraaj Group Art Prize.
Filmography
(selection) Un cercle autour du soleil (2005, short), Untitled (2006, short), Slippage (2007, short), You (2008, short), Dreams in Three Chapters (2013, short), Pipe Dreams (2012, instal), Gazing at the Catastrophe (2012, short), L’Intranquille/The Disquiet (2013, short), Le Creuseur/The Digger (2015, short), The Dam (2022), The Watchman (2023, short)
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The Watchman
Ali Cherri | 26' | France | World premiere
The Watchman deconstructs the myth of duty, laying bare the absurdity of the war rhetoric. -
Gazing at the Catastrophe
Ali Cherri | 5' | France | None
Without looking for a moral or adopting a moralising position towards images of suffering and atrocities or questioning whether we truly have become h -
Ashes
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige | 26' | France | -
Lebanese story of mourning, intimacy and family bonds, motivated by the death of the protagonist’s father. -
The Digger
Ali Cherri | 24' | France | None
In the desert, Sultan Zeib Khan makes his rounds of the ruins of a Neolithic necropolis. Amid the tombs, the vastness of the desert is… -
Pipe Dreams
Ali Cherri | 5' | France | None
A memorable phone call between the Syrian cosmonaut Muhammed Faris (part of a Russian space mission) and the late president Hafez al-Assad.