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Nesrine Khodr

Born January 1, 1973 · Beirut, Lebanon (age 53)

Nesrine Khodr is an artist and television producer who works in moving image, print and performance. Among the subjects her work has explored are perceptions of movement, duration and distance; gender relations; the power of seduction; and intellectual and emotional challenges facing the young generation. Her work has been shown at Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017); 6th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, …

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Extended Sea

Extended Sea · 2017

Aoede

MovieMusicDrama

Every week thousands of beef cattle are transported from Europe across the Mediterranean towards the Middle East. Aeode follows a Syrian sailor as he “jumps ship” in a Spanish port, and the loved one he leaves behind.

I Swam in the Sea Last Week

I Swam in the Sea Last Week · 2003

I Swam in the Sea Last Week

A symbolic and poetic video evoking a changing situation through female body swimming in the sea.

The Beach House

The Beach House · 2016

The Beach House

Four people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.

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Extended Sea

Extended Sea · 2017

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Aoede

MovieMusicDrama

Every week thousands of beef cattle are transported from Europe across the Mediterranean towards the Middle East. Aeode follows a Syrian sailor as he “jumps ship” in a Spanish port, and the loved one he leaves behind.

I Swam in the Sea Last Week

I Swam in the Sea Last Week · 2003

I Swam in the Sea Last Week

A symbolic and poetic video evoking a changing situation through female body swimming in the sea.

Director

The Beach House

The Beach House · 2016

The Beach House

Four people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.

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