Sabine El Chamaa
A practice-led research about media practices around war;
Among the topics that I am interested in are :
- the depictions (or lack of depictions) of death in the war reports of the twenty-first century
- the myths and the narratives that are generated in the war report (as a genre that compares to Hollywood fiction genre film)
- and the media usage as a strategy tool by opposing parties.
Biography:
Sabine El Chamaa is from Beirut, Lebanon; She completed her MFA in film production at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and has worked as a freelance editor in Europe and the US. With her feature film script "Infinite Corridor" (2005), she won the development grant at "Montpellier Int. Film festival", participated to the first Sundance Screenwriter’s lab in Jordan, and to "Mediterranean Films Crossing Borders" in Cannes 2006. Her films include "How beautiful is the Sea" (2003), the animation "Black on White" (2004), the documentary "Crossroad Melancholy: Passages from a winter in Bosnia" (2006) and the partially animated short fiction "Promenade" (2008).