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Synopsis

This film is from the project Unconformities, comprised of artworks made up from the material of surveyed land, extracted from coring construction sites in Paris, Athens and Beirut. These cores bare their "unconformities"—temporal ruptures, natural disasters, geological movements—in full view, revealing a constant cycle of construction and deconstruction that is the defining feature of civilisations past and present, with each using the stones of the last. History appears not as layers but as actions, a kind of palimpsest mixing epochs and civilizations. These poetic recompositions question the dominant forms of narrating and representing history, but also address debates around the Anthropocene.

About This Film

Palimpsests is a 2017 documentary film directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. With a runtime of 13 minutes, the film has earned an audience rating of 0.0 out of 10 based on 0 votes on TMDB. The film stars various actors among its cast of 0 credited actors.

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