A video installation
by Caroline Hatem
The monologues performed in the video are excerpts from Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus descending, adapted by Caroline Hatem, translated into Lebanese Arabic by Caroline Hatem and Joseph Akiki.CREDITS
artist Caroline Hatem
Actors Tracy Younes . Maria Douaihy . Caroline Hatem . Simon Yammine
Song Jean-Noel Aoun (Hallelujah cover)
Image Doumit Douaihy
Dance Image Angèle Basile
Art Work Mohammed Nammoor
Editing James Chehab & Caroline Hatem
Sound MIX Geawargios Hanna
Graphic design Jad Zock
Assistant on set Alexandre Habre
A YAZAN Beirut, Marsah Tripoli co-production, 2026.
Language Arabic, English (WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
Duration 17 MINUTES
DIMENSIONS TWO SCREENS, 192 X 108 CM (16/9 RATIO)
SOUND STEREO
Orfeo & The Beasts addresses what humanizes us, what is true: love, nature, art. And what colonizes us: the Colonizers, certainly, but are they not themselves colonized - by hatred, by ideas? Are we not all colonized by ideas, by fantasies, that are not truly our own? Four characters (the Saint, the Artist, the Lovers) navigate between two worlds: a real world (the reflection of love) and a fabricated world, which sweeps away everything in its path, and which only heroes, Pasolini for example, were able to look right in the eye, before being assassinated. 'Love was never a popular movement’. But we could at least sing, till extinction.
CAROLINE HATEM
