Lebanon Arts & Culture TV & Film 1 Smile by Jennifer MacKenzie 6 months ago Ali Cherri talks about his new film, “ The Disquiet “, which was recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. What was …your inspiration to make this film? With the start of the Arab uprising, a question become urgent: How can I as an artist talk about something still taking shape?
While there’s an urge to think about what’s happening today, I don’t think we have enough critical distance to do so. Hence the idea to shift the subject to another type of catastrophe: our violent seismic history and the imminent threat of disaster. While I limit myself to scientific facts, one cannot but read the film as an investigation into regional geopolitics.
…your biggest challenge? To shift from documentary mode into a more rhetorical discourse. So the film moves from a report-like investigation to an eerie sighting: of dismembered wings on trees in the last scene.
What one scene represents your film? The last five minutes: this scene holds the idea of investigation, obsession, tension, and confrontation with anxiety. Facing the eruption of the wings, I leave the camera behind and walk deep inside the forest: leaving behind language to venture into the unknown.
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