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Like the title indicates ANTÉPÉNULTIÈME (DAOURA) – loosely translated “antepenultimate time” –, the documentary narrative of the emerging film project, despite its socio-political embedding in today’s Beirut, makes it difficult to exactly determine the film’s historical period. “I perceive reality as fiction, and fiction is for me more real.” – Alain Kantarjian. Alain Kantarjian allows a gliding sphere between documentary and fiction, not only to examine the play of reality in the film but also to deal with the harsh merciless social conditions in today’s Lebanon. He does this without attempting to make and deliver the persons concerned only as objects of a distant socio-political discourse.

2016 grant winner for “Video Works Ashkal Alwan” Beirut, Alain Kantarjian is a photographer and filmmaker based in Beirut and Paris. In 2005, he founded LRAK, a video and event company in Paris, and in 2010, Fanar Projects, an independent cultural space in Beirut. His work is collected by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Burger Collection (Hong Kong) and private collectors.