Constructed Futures: Haret Hreik
Short Documentary Film, DE 2017, Farbe, 27 min., OmeU
Diagonale 2017
Director: Sandra Schäfer
Script: Konzept & Realisation: Sandra Schäfer
Location Sound: Sandra Boutros
Sounddesign: Martin Ehlers-Falkenberg
Additional Credits:
Dramaturgische Beratung: Janina Herhoffer
Producers: Sandra Schäfer
Production: mazefilm
Co-production: Akademie der Künste der Welt; Urban Subjects, Wien/Vancouver
The Haret Hreik neighborhood in Beirut is dominated by Shi’ite Lebanese. The Hezbollah headquarters, hidden from the outside, are also found there. Constructed Futures offers insight into the rebuilding after the bombing in the 2006 Lebanon War and in four chapters follows the path of an ideology that considers architecture as a theater of war where decisions are made about the construction of space, landscape, and memory.