Formatted as a letter, this video reflects on the production of images and their relationship with memory, but also on the end of a relationship between two men. It evokes events that took place in 1985, during the civil war, recreating the stroll that led to the couple’s breakup. The short-lived sweetness of a bubblegum works as a metaphor for the relationship and for passion, both of which lose their form and taste quickly. The breakup story unfolds against the backdrop of the mutating urban landscape of Hamra, a Beirut street that used to be the intellectual heart of the city before the civil war broke out. The video was made as part of the Hamra Street Project, curated by Ashkal Alwan (the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts) to reflect on the rise and fall of the famous boulevard, eclipsed at the turn of the century by the development of other parts of the city.
