Ghassan Halwani
In the aftermath of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, Ghassan Halwani consciously withdrew the solo-artist-career, judging that there’s nothing to be told after witnessing such atrocities. He began a series of collaborations with local and Arab playwrights, filmmakers, musicians, writers. He also contributed to the foundation of several collective projects, among them Mansion and The Forest School. In 2012, he collaborated on the creation and institutionalization of a national archive dedicated to the disappeared persons in Lebanon, and in parallel, he completed the film Erased, Ascent of the Invisible in 2018, an attempt to propose a political, materialist and poetic proposition to this interminable cause.