Short Films: The Power of Suggestion: Experimenting with Sound Design

Paradiso, XXXI, 108
Kamal Aljafari, Palestine/Germany, 2022, 18 min., Hebrew with English subtitles

Shadow of the Butterflies
Sofia El Khyari, France/Portugal/Qatar/Morocco, 2022, 9 min., Arabic with English subtitles

The Musical
Mazen Kerbaj, Lebanon, 2021, 20 min., without spoken dialogue

This program brings together three short films in which irony, humour and poetic symbolism are suggested by sound design and music. Through this particular treatment, the meaning of the images changes and different connotations are shaped. 

Mazen Kerbaj is a Lebanese comics author, visual artist, and musician born in Beirut in 1975. He is widely considered as one of the initiators and key players of the Lebanese free improvisation and experimental music scene. He is co-founder of Irtijal, an annual improvisation music festival and of Al Maslakh, the first label for experimental music in the region.