Nour Ouayda

History

Nour Ouayda is a filmmaker, film critic, and programmer. She is deputy director at Metropolis Cinema Association in Beirut where she also manages the Cinematheque Beirut project. She is a co-editor of the Montreal-based online film journal «Hors champ». Her films and writing research the practice of drifting in cinema. She is part of the «Camelia Committee», a collective that explores hybrid forms of writing for and in cinema.

Profile

Movies

One Sea, 10 Seas

Director

Images filmed on the coast of Beirut, of sand, rocks, boats, buildings, people, light, water; still images, in motion, with different degrees of grain. Reflections on the filming process, the strange synthesis of the camera and what is placed before it, the object transformed by the camera into texture, abstraction, appearance.

Towards the Sun

Director

You are now in the main hall of the National Museum in Beirut. A guard reminds you that you are encouraged to touch the archeological objects. A voice in your headset suggests that you lick the stone. You are now facing a hole in the wall on the lower left corner of a mosaic. The voice in your headset indicates that it was made by a sniper. Out of curiosity, you dial 1-9-9-1 to listen to the rest of the story.

Roubama

Assistant Director

He is a refugee. She is a city girl.