now eat my script
24' 50 video, 2014

"Now Eat My Script is a precipice, a fluid solution in which some spectral noises of the self float adrift. Narration takes the role of a pregnant writer who continuously affirms her hunger and clumsiness towards language and history. Her body is crossed over by both the years to come and the stories that have been buried. As a would-be pirate, she navigates through the tumult of familiar waters.

A faltering, yet seemingly omniscient text roams among cities, and between memories that cannot find a proper place, or a proper fiction: After Eight chocolates, children’s group showers, a yellow car that resembles a Dodge, or a pigeon rock where men kill themselves become the phantom limbs of the sacrificed visceral body of speech and story telling that surrounds them. Now Eat My Script is about knowing disastrously."

This video description was written by Arnisa Zeqo for rongwrong in 2014 

 

Credits

Now Eat My Script, by Mounira Al Solh

 

Line Producer: Abla Khoury, Ginger Beirut Production

 

Director of photography: Karam Ghossein, Focus Puller: Salim Sadaka, Production assistant: Elie Deek, Equipment: Platform Studios, Sound Design: Nadim Meshlawi, Foley Artist: Karine Bacha, Post production: Rez Visual, Colorist: Belal Hibri, English Text Editors: Mirene Arsanios & Pranav Behari

Thanks to: Al Amal Institute for the Disabled, Mansion Zoukak Al Boulat, Nassib El Solh, Hanane Bdeir El Solh, Nabih Semaan, Abdelhadi Chami (Abu Sakhra), Mohammad Al Rifai, Ahmad Abu El Tout, Ghassan Maasri, Firas Hallak, Fadi Tofeili, Eyad Houssami, Belal Hibri, Clara Sfeir, Remco De Blaaj, Mondriaan Fonds, Michelle Franke, EM Chill Beirut

With the Support of Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut & Hamburg

© mounira al solh 2014