already dead (déjà morts)

The words of the first fragment of the collection of poems “La fin du monde a déjà eu lieu” (“The End of the World Has Already Occured”) resurface in the images of a building, that of Électricité du Liban, an edifice in decrepitude, just like the institution it represents, long before the 2020 explosion that precipitated its decline.

Ghada Sayegh, Lebanon, 2024, 7 min, in English & French with English intertitles

About the Artist

Ghada Sayegh is associate professor at the Institute for Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematic studies, Saint Joseph University of Beirut. A member of the editorial board of the online cinema review Hors-Champ based in Montreal, she has written numerous articles on cinema and contemporary art in Lebanon. She has, since three years, been writing poetic fragments (44 to date,) “The End of the Word has Already Occurred”, which is developing into an artistic project exploring text and image. She recently finalized two experimental videos using texts from this project, “here afar” (8’, 2024), and “already dead” (7’, 2024). Her last film “météores” (9’, 2025) is a found footage film composed of images from the Katsakh Mediterranean Archives, a personal collection of non-fiction films in Super 8mm and 16mm that capture cities and villages across the Eastern Mediterranean from the 1930s to the 1980s, initiated by Chantal Partamian in 2020.