Four Shorts by Danielle Arbid

In this shorts program, Danielle Arbid offers four portraits of her family. Beginning with her father, whose illness prompts closer reflection of their connection to each other. Her mother’s voice grows more tense and agitated with each phone call as she drives through Beirut. Her relationship with her brother is revealed through a photo story, which hints at their shared memories of violence from the war. Finally, the artist ends on a self-portrait in the form of a photo intended for a lover and never sent, reflecting on a past made up of fiction and memory. Lebanon remains foregrounded through all the tenderness, fear, pain, loss and madness of these intimate moments, captured before they can disappear.