Nesrine Khodr

Nesrine Khodr

Birth : 1973-01-01, Beirut, Lebanon

History

Nesrine Khodr is an artist and television producer who works in moving image, print and performance. Among the subjects her work has explored are perceptions of movement, duration and distance; gender relations; the power of seduction; and intellectual and emotional challenges facing the young generation. Her work has been shown at Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017); 6th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2015); Image Forum, Tokyo (2007); IN FOCUS, Tate Modern, London (2007); Fair Play Video Festival, Berlin (2006); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2005); Videobrasil, São Paolo (2005) and Transmediale, Berlin (2004). Khodr was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (2003–2004). She studied history at the American University of Beirut and European film at the University of Edinburgh. She was born in 1973 in Beirut, where she currently lives and works.

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Nesrine Khodr

Movies

Extended Sea
Director
The Beach House
The Beach House is a film about four people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.
Aoede
Every week thousands of beef cattle are transported from Europe across the Mediterranean towards the Middle East. Aeode follows a Syrian sailor as he “jumps ship” in a Spanish port, and the loved one he leaves behind.
I Swam in the Sea Last Week
Director
A symbolic and poetic video evoking a changing situation through female body swimming in the sea.