The film is about Huguette Caland, a Lebanese painter who emigrated to France in the 1970’s and later to L.A. She talks about herself and her practice. The author, a close parent of Caland, parallels her life and the crisis Lebanon goes through in 2019, followed by the pandemic that hit the country. This is an intimate film that plays with the layering of sounds and images.

2021

49'

French, English subtitles

Author and Director : Fouad Elkoury
Photography : Fouad Elkoury
Text : Fouad Elkoury
Videos : Malek Hosni, Ghassan Salhab, Nadim Tabet
Editors : Carine Doumit
Sound Editing and Mixing : Lama Sawaya (DB Studios)
Image Editing and post production : Hasan Haidar
Voices : Huguette Caland
Production : Fouad Elkoury

The loss is at the heart of this video work. It is the story of Palestine, of the mother, of the beloved, of convictions. All structured around a poem, One Art by Elisabeth Bishop and a book, The book of darkness by Samir Khaddaje.

2019

18'

Arabic and English

Director : Fouad Elkoury
Text and editing : Fouad Elkoury
In all other roles : Mayssa Abou Rahal
Sound design : Mounia Abou Rahal

This is the story of an intimate journal composed of pictures and words, series of pictures and letters to the loved one, throughout the "" days of the war between Israel and lebanon.

2019

20'

Français

Author and Director : Fouad Elkoury
Photography : Fouad Elkoury
Text : Fouad Elkoury

In 2011, under the generic name of « Visiting Tarab », Tarek Atoui invited some musicians to perform together in two separate concerts, one in New York and one in Sharjah. A few musicians also chose to take part in a preliminary research phase led by Kamal Kassar on Arab traditional music at his Foundation Amar’s premises in Lebanon. The film Re-Visiting Tarab retraces those moments, between Lebanon, New-York and Sharjah, when things were still in an early phase. Since then, more concerts have taken place around the world.

2013

85'

English, English subtitles

Director: Fouad Elkoury
Camera: Talal Khoury in Beirut, Pierre Emmanuel Fillet in NY, Sarah Blum in Sharjah
Sound: Rayan Obeidiyin in Beirut, Shirin Abu Shaqra in NY, Stéphane Rives in Sharjah
Editor: Isabelle Prim, Michèle Tyan
Sound mixing: Tunefork studios
Colour correction: Rosario Romagnosi
Music performed by Anti-pop consortium, Mohammad el Akkad, Mustafa Said, Robert Lowe, Ibrahim el Farran, Tarek Atoui, Um Kulthum, Ibrahim Sahlun, Sami el Shawa, Zeena Parkins, Sara Parkins, Ikue Mori, Eliott Sharp, Abdel Nabi Rannan, Moustafa Ismail, Jonathan Butcher, Bi Kidude, Sayyid Dawi, Susie Ibarra, Uriel Barthelemi, Kazuyuki Kishino
Sharjah Art Foundation - DKB Productions

A film on the post-war period. A man and a woman are in a museum and remember; Two intellectuals discuss during a boat trip. All speak of the war, and by extension, of wars that city people experience, heavy shelling, desperate running, shelters…

2012

19'

Arabic, French or English subtitles

Author and Director: Fouad Elkoury Editor: Isabelle Prim Sound mixing: Tunefork studios Original soundtrack: Cynthia Zaven With: Wassim Qays, Amira Solh, Fawaz Traboulsi Halles de Schaerbeek - DKB Productions

A diaporama featuring Arafat traveling aboard a Greek ship that was to take him from Beirut to Athens in August-September 1982.

2012

13'36

Francais English

Texts and photography: Fouad Elkoury

Welcome to Beirut is about daily life: driving in the city, going to the hairdresser, discussions with the grocer, visiting a motor show, a wax museum, dining out... It is a driven promenade inside the city with a few open windows through which to peep in. More ironic than sarcastic, the film reveals the state of mind of a certain Lebanese society, a direct consequence of the atlas syndrome: When one opens a European atlas of the world, Lebanon is in the middle but also in the crack, central yet invisible.

2005

45'

French - Arabic, English subtitles

Author and Director : Fouad Elkoury
Editor : Maria Gamboa, Catherine Quesemand
Sound Mixing : Romain Frydman
Colour correction : Emmanuel Vincent / Franck Chafei
Production : Et Alors Productions

The film portrays the separation of a family. The mother and two children move out of a house while the father stays on, alone. The action takes place over two days, the time for the house to be emptied of its furniture. There is no reference to a happy past, the tension rises from the mere packing of the objects.

2004

20'

French, English subtitles

Author and Director : Fouad Elkoury
Editing : Tina Baz
Sound Mixing : Vincent Bordelais, Romain Frydman
Colour correction : Franck Chafei
Production : Et Alors Productions

The film is based on photographs taken during a two-year stay in Turkey and a sound-track relating the trip within the country. Interwoven with this narrative are images and conversations portraying the author’s illness, which was diagnosed upon his return. This is an intimate film that plays with the layering of sounds and images.

2002

43'

French, English subtitles

Author and Director : Fouad Elkoury
Images and Photography : Fouad Elkoury
Text : Fouad Elkoury
Editors : Tina Baz, Emmanuel Barrault, Pascal Cuissot
Sound Mixing : Eric Rey (UMT)
Image Editing : Emmanuel Vincent
Voices : Yasmine Hamdane, Dominique Edde, Huguette Caland, Mycal Khoury, Zeyd Khoury, Walid Khoury, Nada Zeineh, Jeanne Hilary, Christine Haie Meder
Production : Et Alors Productions & Maison Europeenne de la Photo

This video features the opening of an exhibition by Robert Frank in Madrid. It was shot in one day in June 2001, without the intention of making a film, but rather of recalling a moment. It shows Robert Frank at a cocktail party given at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and later, with his friends having dinner.

2001

15’

English, French subtitles

Author and Director : Fouad Elkoury
Editing : Fouad Elkoury, Carolina Furque

Featuring: Robert Frank, June Leaf, Peter and Susan Mc Gill, Catherine Coleman, Dominique Eddé, Dina Haidar, Paolo Roversi, Albano, Alberto and Maria Luisa, Kazuko

Of Palestine, we know the violence and the suffering. This film tells another story : the story of a pre-Israeli society happily living on its land. Using old photographs found by the Arab Image Foundation and the voice of 5 women who were born in Palestine before 1948, the film recalls ordinary moments of life.

1998

13’

French, English subtitles

Author : Fouad Elkoury
Director : Sylvain Roumette
Editor : Michèle Loncol
Sound engineer : Laurent Malan
Banc Titre : Jean-Noel Delamarre
Images : Fondation arabe pour l'Image
Production : On Line

With the voices of : Leila Shahid, Jumana Husseini, Lena Saleh, Aida Shehade, Nabila Nashashibi