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Filmmakers and artists, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige question the fabrication of images and representations, the construction of imaginaries, and the writing of history. Their works create thematic and formal links between photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture, and cinema, through documentaries and feature films.

Together, they have directed numerous films that have been shown and awarded in the most prominent international film festivals before having theatrical releases in many countries.

The artists are known for their long-term research based on personal or political documents, with particular interests in the traces of the invisible and the absent, histories kept secret such as the disappearances during the Lebanese Civil War, a forgotten space project from the 1960s, the strange consequences of Internet scams and spam, as well as the geological and archaeological undergrounds of cities. Among their major artworks are: Circle of Confusion (1997), Lasting Images (2003), The Lebanese Rocket Society (2011), SCAMS (2014), I Stared at Beauty So Much (2016) and Unconformities (2017). They were showcased at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and were awarded the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize.