They No Longer See the Land, but Square Meters

The first in a series of independent short films produced by Public Works Studio in collaboration with four artists – Hashem Adnan, Majd el-Hamwi, Ghassan Halwani, and Saseen Kawzaly- based on the research project “Master-Planning in Lebanon: Manufacturing Landscapes of Inequality”. The first film, directed by Ghassan Halwani, deals with the dispossession that the state’s land and housing policies have enabled. It looks into the inevitable result of policies relying on commodifying and financializing the land, a permanent loss on all levels – physical, social, private and intimate