Moving-Image Works by Rabih Mroué

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 7pm for a screening of films and videos by Rabih Mroué.

Bringing together selected works made between 2002 and 2020, the program offers an overview of Mroué's moving-image-based practice that has persistently examined the relation between production of images, personal memory, and political history. Situated across theater, video, and performance, these works move between family testimony, wartime images, and essayistic reflection, examining the unstable status of documents, voices, and recorded events.

Program

Rabih Mroué, Face A / Face B (2002, 10 min|
A metaphysical film exploring the nature of memory and knowledge, sight and sound, physical evidence and identity, and recollection and survival. Acclaimed Lebanese stage and performance director and actor Rabih Mroué leads us on a seemingly autobiographical journey from his childhood, through the Lebanese civil war, to his present as he searches for meaning among the fragments of his memory, cassette tapes, and photos.

Rabih Mroué, With Soul, with Blood (2003, 10 min)
The tension between "I" and "we" is at the heart of democratic life. How to be in a collective without erasing one’s individuality? This video is about trying to find my unique voice, values, and ideas within the group that whether intentionally or unintentionally overshadowing others.

Rabih Mroué, Footnotes (2014–2016, 50 min)
In Footnotes Rabih Mroué addresses his own experiences of war and its lingering aftermaths. The work collects visual footnotes, unfinished thoughts and outtakes, from years of living, working in his home country Lebanon; references to civil war and displacement are frequent, but so are broader questions about living and dying and the strange commune between.

Rabih Mroué, Shooting Images (2012, 9 min)
I had been struck by one sentence: “The Syrian protesters are recording their own deaths”. I found a lot of material, but one group of videos grabbed me in particular, in which we witness a Syrian protester being shot by one of the regime’s soldier forces. These videos show the moments of eye contact between the killer and his victim, when the gun’s line of sight and the camera’s lens meet. - Rabih Mroué

Rabih Mroué, Chalk Outlines (2020, 2 min)
Through his short video, Rabih Mroué creates a quiet, personal response to loss and the everyday realities of wars. It traces recurring impressions, creating an homage to the phantom presence of the dead.

Rabih Mroué, Cheers to Our Wishes (2020, 15 min)
A video essay combines an adaptation of Antonin Artaud’s story on the oriental plague, an email correspondence between Mroué and his doctor concerning a infection in his way of seeing and a video-letter to his sister in which he reflects on the family gathering.

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