Ghassan Salhab
Ghassan Salhab (Arabic; غسان سلهب, born 4 May 1958) is a Lebanese screenwriter and film director born in Dakar, Senegal. In addition to making his own films, he collaborates on various scenarios and teaches film in Lebanon. He has directed six feature films; Beyrouth Fantôme, Terra Incognita, The Last Man, 1958, The Mountain and The Valley. His films have been selected in various international film festivals. He has finished the shooting of The River, in addition to numerous “essays” and different “video works” including "Posthumous," "Chinese Ink," "Son Image," and Le voyage Immobile," on which he collaborated with Lebanese documentary filmmaker Mohamed Soueid.
Ghassan Salhab | |
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| Born | 4 May 1958 |
| Occupation(s) | Director, Writer |
| Website | http://www.ghassansalhab.com/ |
In 2016, he was a DAAD (Berlin) guest-resident. La Rochelle International Film Festival, JC Carthage and La Cinémathèque du Québec made a tribute to his work. He has also published different texts and articles in various magazines and a book, “fragments du Livre du naufrage”.
Filmography
Feature films
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Beyrouth fantôme | (2h) |
| 2002 | Terra incognita | (1h56) |
| 2006 | The Last Man | (1h41) |
| 2009 | 1958 | (1h06) |
| 2011 | The Mountain | (1h24) |
| 2014 | The Valley | (2h14) |
| 2021 | The River | (1h41) |
Other works
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | The Key | (15’) |
| 1991 | The Other | (10’) |
| 1991 | After Death | (21’) |
| 1994 | Afrique fantôme | (21’) |
| 1999 | Of Seduction | (32’) co-directed with Nesrine Khodr |
| 2000 | Nobody's Rose | (10’) |
| 2000 | Baalbeck | (56’) in 3 parts, the 2 other by Akram Zaatari and Mohamed Soueid |
| 2003 | My dead body, my living body | (14’) |
| 2004 | Lost Narcissus | (15’) |
| 2005 | Brève rencontre avec Jean Luc Godard | (40’) |
| 2006 | Dead Time | (7’) |
| 2007 | (Posthumous) | (29’) |
| 2010 | Le massacre des innocents | (triptych-video, 28’) |
| 2012 | Everybody know this is nowhere | (diptych-video, 15’) |
| 2016 | Son Image | (diptych-video, 22’) |
| 2017 | Chinese Ink | (55’) |
| 2018 | Le voyage immobile | (23’) co-directed with Mohamed Soueid |
| 2019 | Une rose ouverte | (1h12) |
Publications
- Fragments du livre du naufrage, Amers Editions, 2011[1]
Exhibitions
Group exhibitions
- Beirut Lab: 1975(2020) Curated by Juli Carson and Yassmeen Tukan, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, 2019[2]
References
- "Fragments du livre du naufrage". Fnac. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- "Beirut Lab: 1975(2020)". University of California. 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.