Ziad Antar
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Ziad Antar (born 1978 in Saida, Lebanon) is a Lebanese filmmaker and photographer. He studied Agricultural Engineering at the American University of Beirut before turning to video and arts with a residency at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and a post-diploma of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.[1]
Ziad Antar’s short films evoke a world in conflict through a playful tone.[2] In the aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon War, Ziad Antar produced a short film entitled La Marche Turque. The image shows the hands of a pianist playing Mozart’s partition, while the sound is hammered, reminding the one of bombings.[3] In 2002, Antar had directed a documentary film devoted to his mentor, the photographer Jean-Luc Moulène.[4]
In 2000, he acquired a 1948 Kodak Reflex and 10 rolls of black-and-white film that had expired in 1976. He began using this outdated material, producing a blurred and almost abstract effect on his photographs.[5] One of the photographs depict Walid Jumblatt and supposedly evokes the danger the Lebanese Druze leader faces after having criticized Hezbollah and the Syrian government.[6]
Filmography
- Jean-Luc Moulène (2002)
- Tokyo Tonight (2003)
- WA (2004)
- La Marche Turque (2006)
- Safe Sound (2006)
- Mdardara (2007)
- La Corde (2007)
- Le Radar (2007)
- Etudes Mains (2008)
- La Mouche (2008)
- Banana (2008)
- Night of Love (2009)
- La Souris (2009)
- Safe Sound (2009)
Publications
- Beirut Bereft – The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict (Rasha Salti & Ziad Antar), Sharjah Art Foundation, 2009
- Portrait of a territory, Actes Sud/Sharjah Art Foundation, 2012
- Expired, Beaux Arts de Paris Editions and Musée Nicéphore Niepce publication, 2014
- After Images, Contributions by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yahya Amqassim, Manal Khader, Yasmina Jraissa, Kaph 2016
