multimedia projects

HABITAT: war insanity AND inhabitant casualties is a multimedia project that aims to show the insanity of war. The project wants to use zoological/human metaphors to aware about civil casualties and landscape destructions. Sounds aim to give an appearance of life to currently desolated locations by playing with surreal memories of an inhabited past.

HABITAT

Bent Jbeil-Lebanon. Summer 2006

In the summer of 2006, Lebanon suffered of a tough war between Hezbollah and Israel. The 33days war was mainly battled in the South of Lebanon, a stunning landscape of orchards, valleys and mountains. Israeli air force massively bombed several Lebanese villages closed to the border. The town of Bent Jbeil was mainly reduced to rubble. At the end of the war both parts reclaimed the victory on the field. However, the more than one thousands civil casualties made their victory-claims as mere futility…
[Check the posts on harb tamouz, the July War (articles/Italian)]

HABITATEIN – MAR QUNEITRA

In June 1974, Israeli troops withdrew from the Syrian town of Quneitra after occupying it for almost 7 years. Before leaving, Israelis completely destroyed this town on the strategic Golan Heights. Syrians decided to make of the town an open-air museum, which became a pilgrimage site for Syrians and tourists. A desolated landscape, and a perfect habitat for cicadas…

BEIRUT SYNAGOGUE

Works at Maghen Abraham Synagogue in Wadi Abou Jamil district of Downtown Beirut seem on the way to be finished. The renovation of the synagogue began in the summer of 2009 after a popular call to preserve such stunning piece of history. The renovation works began almost secretly and were funded by private donors and from Solidere, owned by the family of the actual Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Here the synagogue before renovation works started. Memories of a not very far past. Again, memories (and warning) of what usually wars left behind. Beauty Destruction.