This film takes the site of an old photographic studio named Studio Shehrazade (founded in Saida –South Lebanon—in1953) as a site of an excavation the filmmaker leads. The film observes all kinds of...Read more findings, through which the film counts the story of a photographer, Hashem el Madani (1928- ), a city (Saida), an economy, and the industry of photography. It hereby touches on the socio-politics of image making and consuming, and looks at the function photography played in the lives of city inhabitants.
This film takes the site of an old photographic studio named Studio Shehrazade (founded in Saida –South Lebanon—in1953) as a site of an excavation the filmmaker leads. The film...Read more observes all kinds of findings, through which the film counts the story of a photographer, Hashem el Madani (1928- ), a city (Saida), an economy, and the industry of photography. It hereby touches on the socio-politics of image making and consuming, and looks at the function photography played in the lives of city inhabitants.
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