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Hisham Bizri
BENEATH THE WIDE WIDE HEAVEN
USA, 2016, 15’ 7”
BENEATH THE WIDE WIDE HEAVEN
Pier Paolo Pasolini plays the role of the director as conveyor of human experience in this experimental documentary film. The director is constantly watching, thinking, and feeling, all in the hope that the film, once it stands alone, will be sufficient and whole. And on him is the burden of showing through cinema the human experience of transcendence.
Hisham Bizri
Film director, writer, producer, and scholar born in Beirut, Lebanon. He started working in films in the US and Hungary with filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Raoul Ruiz, and Miklós Jancsó. and has directed 25 short films to date. He taught film at MIT, UC Davis, NYU, Boston University, The School Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the University of Minnesota, Brown University, and in Lebanon, Korea, Japan, Ireland, and Jordan where he initiated a number of academic film programs. His students have gone to study film at NYU, USC, AFI, UCLA, La Fémis (Paris) and FAMU (Prague). Bizri’s work has been shown in international venues including Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Oberhausen, Moscow, and Abu Dhabi film festivals as well as the Louvre, Institut du Monde Arabe, Cinémathèque Française, Centre Pompidou, MoMa, and Anthology Film Archives (NY). He is recipient of awards such as the McKnight, Salomon, LEF, Jerome, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and “the Rome Prize” from the American Academy.
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