Ziad Antar


Ziad Antar is a Lebanese filmmaker and photographer. He studied Agricultural Engineering at the American University of Beirut before turning to video and arts with a residency at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and a post-diploma of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

Life and work

Ziad Antar’s short films evoke a world in conflict through a playful tone. In the aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon War, Ziad Antar produced a short film entitled La Marche Turque. The image shows the hands of a pianist playing Mozart’s partition, while the sound is hammered, reminding the one of bombings. In 2002, Antar had directed a documentary film devoted to his mentor, the photographer Jean-Luc Moulène.
In 2000, he acquired a 1948 Kodak Reflex and 10 rolls of black-and-white film that had expired in 1976. He began using this outdated material, producing a blurred and almost abstract effect on his photographs. One of the photographs depict Walid Jumblatt and supposedly evokes the danger the Lebanese Druze leader faces after having criticized Hezbollah and the Syrian government.

Filmography

Jean-Luc Moulène Tokyo Tonight WA La Marche Turque Safe Sound Mdardara La Corde Le Radar Etudes Mains La Mouche Banana Night of Love La Souris
  • ''Safe Sound''

Publications

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Dark Matter, La Crypte, Beirut in Collaboration with Beirut Art Residency 2017
  • Ziad Antar: Safe Sounds II in Collaboration with Beirut Art Residency 2016
  • After Images, Beirut Exhibition Center 2016
  • Ziad Antar: Expired, Selma Feriani Gallery, London, 2011
  • Portrait of a Territory, Arts Area, Sharjah, 2012

Group exhibitions