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Screening memory: violence and trauma in De Gaulle Eid's Chou Sar?
[working paper]
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Zentrum Moderner Orient
Abstract Chou Sar? (What happened?) is a documentary film by De Gaulle Eid, made in 2010 in Lebanon. The film consists of a number of interviews Eid undertook with his close and extended family about a massacre that took place one evening in December, 1980. Among the dead were Eid’s parents. Thirty years lat... view more
Chou Sar? (What happened?) is a documentary film by De Gaulle Eid, made in 2010 in Lebanon. The film consists of a number of interviews Eid undertook with his close and extended family about a massacre that took place one evening in December, 1980. Among the dead were Eid’s parents. Thirty years later, as he visits his relatives and records their stories, the question what happened? comes to be directed more towards the personal, social, and political circumstances in which the survivors have coped. In the following discussion I focus on how Eid's film addresses this event by concentrating on its aftermath. I am interested in how Chou Sar? engages the capacity of public and political cultures in Lebanon to approach memory of violence and enduring trauma as pressing concerns in and for the present. In doing so, I suggest that the film works to screen and situate violence and trauma as both actual and potential modes of address and response.... view less
Keywords
trauma; Lebanon; violence; culture of remembrance; the public; political culture; documentary film; film research; reminiscence
Classification
Impact Research, Recipient Research
Other Media
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
11 p.
Series
ZMO Working Papers, 13
ISSN
2191-3897
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications