This video was executed as a project for the Experimental Video course at the Institute of Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies (IESAV) at the Saint-Joseph University in Lebanon. It was made from excerpts from several Lebanese movies: “Tannoura Maxi” (“Heels of War”); “Beirut Hotel”; and “Rue Huvelin”. These scenes were judged to be too daring and were removed from the original versions, by the national Lebanese censorship bureau. This video aims to show the arbitrary and mostly unfounded judgment this bureau makes on Lebanese art: the censored parts are political, sexual and religious, but beyond this, even ‘cheesiness’ is not safe. No more freedom for Lebanese artists, the censorship bureau manipulates as it pleases, like the woman’s voice in this video.
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