‘Mapping Place Narratives: Beyhum Street’ Screening at Metropolis

Attend a screening of “Mapping Place Narratives: Beyhum Street” by Nadine Bekdache at Metropolis as part of Video Works 2014.

Mapping Place Narratives: Beyhum Street (2014)
– 35 minutes
– Arabic with English subtitles

Synopsis:
An image that depicts a futuristic representation of a neighbourhood in Beirut is used as a tool to instigate conversations with the current residents of one of its re-imagined alleys. The urban fabric of Beyhum Street has been organically developing since the end of the 19th century, and part of this alley has been continuously inhabited since the 1940s. It is both a place of residence and of work (small industries, crafts, shops). A number of adjacent plots within the alley now make up a huge construction site for a residential tower. Depicted in the futuristic image as complete and ready for habitation, the scale of the building ¬– besides being unrecognizable by the residents – begs for answers as to what it replaced and how it became a reality.

Free entrance.