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Mon ami Imad et le taxi (My Friend Imad and the Taxi)

Olga Nakkas

1985 00:19:00 LebanonNone4:3Super 8 film

Description

In 1985, Hassan Zbib and Olga Nakkas separately started to develop film scenarios based on simple narratives, and would shoot them on Super 8, which was still possible to develop in Beirut at the time. Their work featured the city as a stage where lonely characters drifted: a taxi driver in his car, a man walking around, talking to a Rambo poster. These films were never presented as finalized work until a Beirut-based festival, né à Beyrouth, discovered them and asked the filmmakers to present their films with a live electronic soundtrack improvised by local artists. The soundtrack presented on this version is the recording of that session.

This title is only available on Radical Closure.

About Olga Nakkas

Born in 1953, Olga Nakkas produced several documentaries during the war in Lebanon and later in Paris with her company Les Films de L’Odyssée. In 1994 she directed and produced Lebanon: Bits and Pieces for France 3 and the EU. In 1999 she directed Halima for la Francophonie. From 2002 to 2004 she was an executive producer at Article Z, a documentary film company, Paris. In 2005 she moved back to Beirut.