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          March 19 – 30, 2025

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              The Ban + The Diary of a Sky

              Roisin Agnew & Lawrence Abu Hamdan / Ireland, United Kingdom & Lebanon / 71 min

              Two films shown together. ‘The Ban’ is a curious but disturbing case study from Northern Ireland in the 80s. At the time, the ultra-conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher banned representatives of the IRA and Sinn Féin from speaking in the British media. Censorship and resistance collide in a situation that takes a bizarre twist. In ‘The Diary of a Sky’, artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan examines the invisible militarization and violence taking place in the skies above the Lebanese capital Beirut. Israeli drones and fighter jets are constantly flying over the city in a campaign where the sound levels stress the city’s civilian inhabitants.

              The Ban

              Roisin Agnew / Ireland & United Kingdom / 2024 / 26 min

              Censorship and resistance collide in a curious but disquieting case study from Northern Ireland in the 1980s, where the media found a way out by dubbing all interviews with the IRA and Sinn Féin.

              At the bloody height of the conflict between Northern Irish Protestants and Catholics in the 1980s, ultra-conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher imposed a ban on giving media time to representatives of the IRA and Sinn Féin. The idea was to stifle their rebellion against the British by refusing them the ‘oxygen of publicity’. The problem was that in legal terms the law only applied to voices, so the situation took a bizarre turn when the free media for years hired professional actors to dub their interviews with the Irish rebels. ‘The Ban’ is a sharp case study in censorship and resistance with disturbing echoes in the present.

              The Diary of a Sky

              Lawrence Abu Hamdan / Lebanon / 2024 / 45 min

              Lawrence Abu Hamdan examines the invisible militarization and violence taking place in the skies above the Lebanese capital Beirut.  

              In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic brings an acute silence to the world. In that silence, filmmaker and artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan takes to the empty streets of Beirut to document the sound and noise that still exists in the city. Roaring generators keep the city’s faltering electricity alive, coming and going as it suits the city leaders. 

              But the noise is mixed with the noise of Israeli drones and Israeli fighter jets that constantly blow over the city, leaving nothing but white scars on the blue sky and a dramatic sound level over the Lebanese capital. Studies show that the noise raises the blood pressure of the people living under it. 

              For one month in 2020, the UN Digital Library records that the Israeli Air Force committed 440 violations and infringements against the Lebanese Air Force. ‘The Diary of a Sky’ is an essayistic collage of global politics and misinformation that documents the militarization of the sky and the symphony of terror and violence unfolding above the heads of Beirut’s imprisoned citizens.