![]() Yara Al Chehayed, is a PhD scholar from the Levant, at UCLouvain: Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. In 2021, he directed Fracture, his first experimental film, selected for "Tirana International Film Festival" and for several other national and international festivals. In 2009, his first short film, Le Cas Perrot, was selected for "Premiers Plans d'Angers Festival" and for several national and international festivals. His films explore the human unconscious and mix realism and fantasy. After a master's degree in filmmaking at the ENSAV - National Higher School of Audiovisual, he joined Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains in 2018. Despite their very rich imagination, today’s children are more connected to reality than anyone else-until the day they receive their first cellphone.īorn in Beirut, Rony Tanios is a medical doctor and a psychiatrist, graduated from Paris VII in 2014. It is the child who reveals Victor’s sad loneliness and makes him understand that there is no point in waiting for someone who will never come. It is the child who interrupts Victor’s delirium and brings him back to reality. RT: It is indeed the child’s balloon that crosses Victor’s invisible wall and knocks down the decor. Do you think through the children in us, we will reconnect with each other? YAC: At the end of the movie, a playful child brings Victor back to the reality that he is connected to the world. We thus prefer to stay at home, sequestered with our avatar in the same cell. This gives us little desire to meet the Other, for fear that the Other will discover in us a real version that is much blander than the virtual one. ![]() The virtual image we create of ourselves is meant to better “connect” us with others, get us more “likes” and attract more “followers.” The valuation our virtual image brings us pushes us to identify with it more than with our reflection in the mirror. He replaces it with a new mirror that modifies his perceptions by making him believe that someone is knocking at his door. RT: Victor no longer wants the image that his mirror reflects of him. Do you think our current images of ourselves are distorted? If so, what has caused this distortion? YAC: We see Victor confined to his reality and looking at himself through a broken mirror that reflects a distorted image. He is waiting for someone who will never come. In the film, Victor lives in this social bubble with invisible walls. We prefer to watch their avatar on our screen. We look at the “Other” without seeing them. This social “fracture” detaches individuals and confines them to bubbles with invisible walls. We brush past each other daily without leaving our phones to look at each other. We have never been so close physically yet so apart mentally. Today we live on an overpopulated planet in cramped spaces. Social networks have strongly contributed to this alienation of the individual within society. Rony Tanios: Fracture is a film that explores the loneliness of human beings in a society governed by appearances. ![]() What do you think has contributed to the fall of walls between the outside world and our private spaces? Yara Al Chehayed: In your movie we see an absence of walls separating private from public. Fracture by Rony Tanios is the first film selected by Yara Al Chehayed. Tashattot Collective invited Yara Al Chehayed to select three films from the catalog of Le Fresnoy in response to the exhibition Tashattot. In 2023, KIOSK streams in partnership with Le Fresnoy a series of films on its website.
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