Hands | Birds
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by Christine Kettaneh
Lebanon, 2024, 6 min
In
the aftermath of Lebanon’s 2019 economic collapse, an artist reflects on the
surreal choreography of counting devalued currency. Amidst the mechanical
flipping of cash, a poetic vision unfolds: an allegory of survival, labor, and
loss. The film begins with a flipbook poem about a mythical bird that never
lands—not even in death. As pages turn, the narrative shifts, exploring the
physical gestures of flipping, connecting hands to wings, labor to flight. In a
world where money vanishes, what remains is the motion, the hand, and the story
it continues to tell.