A Multimedia Installation based on a 30-hour stream of raw footage captured before and during the Revolution of the 17th of October
๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ต is a Lebanese filmmaker and socio-economic development specialist whose
practice operates at the intersection of memory, war trauma, and spatial politics. Her work relies
on unique intimate settings to examine her society. From the moral and physical reconstruction of
post-occupation border villages in her film Mabrouk at-Tahrir (2002), to the domestic holding
spaces of war in Conversations in Times of War (2013), and the friction between Western
capitalism and Arab identity in Beirut Cowboy (2009), her lens captures human vulnerability
suspended in geopolitical time. Whether through the eyes of a child navigating shelters and
balconies in her novel Balcons et Abris, or through her extensive documentation of marginalized
communities, Fathallah continuously interrogates how citizens physically and emotionally survive
foreign occupation, state negligence, and internal friction.
For this installation, Dalia Fathallah brings together her rich background in development and urban
planning, as well as her interest in people and in telling their stories, to document our recent history
and create a space that reminds us of the power we, the people, have, in making a change.
๐๐ข๐ช๐ก ๐ช๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐ฅ (๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ)
A Multimedia Installation based on a 30-hour stream of raw footage captured before and during
the Revolution of the 17th of October
by Dalia Fathallah
20-26 October 2026, from 6 to 11 PM | Ziko House, Beirut
Today, we the Lebanese are tired. We walk aimlessly in the streets with empty eyes, looking for
means of survival. Our bones are tired, our souls depleted, our hearts dry. In our minds, never are
we going to make a change, never are we going to defeat the oligarchy ruling us, never are we
going to stop the war.
However, a slight murmur comes sometimes to our ears and says: but it happened, we did it once.
Remember? We held on to our anger, we united against the oppressive power, we defeated our
fear, we took back the streets that they had stolen from us.
Down with Our Anger is an immersive multimedia installation that confronts today's political
exhaustion. At the heart of the exhibition is a 30-hour stream of raw video footage, photography,
and graffiti captured before and during the 2019 October Revolution in Downtown Beirut.
Alongside this radical archive lies a personal memory of Lebanon's endless cycle of war.
This installation acts as a sharp psychological mirror for a public currently drained by war,
displacement, severe financial hardship and is drifting back into the false comfort of sectarian
divisions. By bringing this rediscovered history of defiance back into the light, the project disrupts
our political resignation, and forcing us to remember the exact moment we broke our collective
fear to stand together against a corrupt ruling class, showing how the uprising permanently
transformed the way we see and reclaim Downtown Beirut.
