Filmmakers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (b. 1969, Beirut) weave thematic, conceptual and formal links between photography, video installations, fiction and documentary films. Self-taught, they became filmmakers and visual artists out of necessity in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil wars. Their highly personal research has led them to explore the sphere of the visible and the absent, nurturing a fascinating back-and-forth between life and fiction. For over 15 years, their films and works, produced from personal or political documents, have been developing narratives about stories kept secret from the dominant narrative.
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige build their work on the production of knowledge, the rewriting of history and the construction of imaginary worlds, as well as on the modalities of contemporary narration, drawing on the experience of their own country while transcending its borders. The investigative process they adopt, and their questioning of territory - both geographical and individual - give their work a unique aesthetic.
Their works take into account the complexity of situations to shift the gaze and question both the division of today's world and the contemporary challenges of the image.