LATENT BORDER (S)

Latent Borde(s) looks at the history of borders that is very much inherent to the physicality of film. It tackles the divisions and the micro-economies they generate and sheds light on modern history and issues related to illegal migration...

IN THE RUINS OF BAALBECK STUDIOS

The work is about the ruination of film heritage navigated through Lebanon's cinematic heydays of the late 60s and early 70s - a period that witnessed a rise of Egyptian producers and directors moving to Lebanon to make films partly due to Nasser's nationalization of the Egyptian cinema...

E.D.L

Lost in time and translation, images transport us on a journey behind the modernist facade of Beirut’s electricity building. The work portrays Lebanon’s National Electricity building as an homage to a once modernist project linked to the very construction of Lebanon’s modern state...

DIE GESPENSTEREI 2

The in-camera-edited images are investigating how places, built in a modern spirit architecture in pre-Nazi Germany and that later served as a stage for personal encounters, weekend strolls or official gatherings, were thus made part of different political realities that possibly shaped our present perception of them...

GOLDEN RUSH

Gold Rush was the name of a ‘super night club’ that once existed in Ain El Mreisseh in Beirut. The film Golden Rush explores the city of Beirut and the surge of people that move and vanish within it, using a language that evokes dream, traffic, seduction, and disappearance...

A TRAGIC TALE OF FIRE WATER & RADON

Shot in Bad Gastein (Austria) inside the local Congress Center, a modernist concrete building with red interior, built in the 1960's by Gerhard Garstenauer that has been deserted since the 1990s. A city that once used to serve as a hotspot for aristocrats and politics since its emergence as a spa location during the 18th and 19th century...

DAS KINO PROJEKT

The Kino project is an in situ traveling cinema that deals with local archives and issues of cultural memory. It could be considered as research, installation, archive and gallery or none of all these terms and simply as homage to the endangered cinema culture...

COLOR CLUB LAB

Color club is an artist run film laboratory for analogue film processing and color club lab is a workshop module that investigates analogue film practices...

BIO

Siska is a visual artist and a filmmaker born in Beirut, based in Berlin. His practice is often centered on archaeology examining sociopolitical narratives in relation to personal and collective pasts.His use of film language and codes of cinematography, as strategic mediations to activate an archive, allows him to experiment with new forms of storytelling and his own biography...

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