The Story of Milk and Honey

  • August 5, 2017 / 15:00

Director: Basma Alsharif
Lebanon; 2016, 9’58’’; Arabic; Turkish subtitles

The Story of Milk and Honey is a short experimental video belonging to a larger project, which includes photographs, drawings and text, detailing an un-named individual’s failure to write a love story. Through voiceover narration that weaves together images, letters, and songs, a story of defeat transpires into a journey that explores how we collect and perceive information, understand facts, history, images, and sound and where the individual is to be found in the midst of the material.

Produced with the Fundación Marcelino Botín Grant for Visual Arts Fund.

The Story of Milk and Honey

The Story of Milk and Honey

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Trailer

The Story of Milk and Honey

Turquerie

Turquerie

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