SEX & PLEASURE (2023)
TV Series
What do South Africans get up to behind closed doors (and, well, everywhere else too)? The adults-only documentary series Sex and Pleasure, hosted by writer Kim Windvogel and journalist Romantha Botha, directed by Ayanda Duma, explores this hot topic. ( Full Write Up )
Roles
Audio Production, Arrangement, Recording Artist ( See Full Team )
Produced by
Showmax
KASH KASH (2022)
Feature Documentary
A vital, cinematic snapshot of Lebanon and its chaotic state, where the flat rooftops high above the city streets become a hopeful haven for people practising the ritualistic pigeon sport Kash Hamam. Under the golden sun of Beirut, men stand on rooftops and shoot oranges at the sky. They do this to scare their pigeons, make them fly further, and make them stronger. They play the game Kash Hamam, where you have to lure the other players’ pigeons into your own pigeon loft. If you succeed, there’s Kash. And then you cut the feathers off the pigeon. Or feed it to the cats. Lea Najjar’s cinematic debut is a vital portrait of her hometown Beirut. A city hit by a corrupt elite, popular protests and one of the biggest explosions of the 21st century. But also a city where its hard-pressed citizens come together and form communities despite the chaos. On the flat rooftops high above the labyrinthine streets, we meet three men who have bonded over their love of pigeons – and a girl who dreams of entering the masculine game, Kash Hamam. A vivid, impressionistic snapshot from an already eminent director. ( Full Write Up )
Roles
Audio Production, Arrangement, Recording Artist ( See Full Team )
Festival Appearances
Lebanon Metropolis Cinema by Goethe Institute
Denmark CPH:DOX
Germany Berlinale, Das Dokumentarfestival Karlsruhe, Filmschau BW, Das Dokumentarfestival Karlsruhe, DOK.fest München, SAOT Festival
United States DOC NYC, Black Star Festival
Poland EnergaCAMERIMAGE
Belgium Millenium Fest
Ireland Cork International Film Festival
South Africa Durban International Film Fest
Austria Ethnocineca, Filmfestival Kitzbühel
France FIPADOC, PriMed International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary
Awards
CPH:DOX, NEXT:WAVE Award
First Steps, FIRST STEPS Award
EnergaCAMERIMAGE, Golden Frog for best documentary
Cork International Film Festival Award for Cinematic Doc Nominee
كان يمكن أن لا أكون
THE DISASTER CANNOT BE CONTAINED (2022)
Short Film
Departing from the port of Rotterdam to that of Beirut, the Lebanese artist/filmmaker takes us on a journey through her feminist dream to work on a tugboat in the port of Beirut. A passion for ports and ships turns into a generational trauma due to the aftermath of the port Blast in 2020. The film offers an intersectional narrative and brings together questions of loss, distance, death, and the undead. ( MORE from Director Diana Al-Halabi )
Roles
Audio Production, Arrangement, Recording Artist
Festival Appearances
Netherlands International Film Festival of Rotterdam IFFR
Lebanon Beirut Shorts
Awards
Beirut Shorts Best Short Film of the Year 2022
DEAD SCORING (2021)
Performance Film
Last summer we remix’d a series of advertisements, music videos, tv shows, and films, that influenced our shared consciousness over the years. We performed our 25 minute satire live behind the footage at Metro Al Madina and now, you can watch it on @foundsound ‘s youtube. As soon as your deposit clears, we will be delighted to appear at your kid’s next birthday party. The clowns are free
OneBeat Lebanon convened 10 Lebanon-based musicians and 2 U.S.-based musicians (ages 19-35) for an intensive residency to collaboratively create original work and to develop civically engaged music initiatives. During the 3-week Beirut-based residency, 12 OneBeat Lebanon Fellows formed ensembles and wrote, recorded, produced, and performed genre-defying work, re-inventing existing music, led socially distant workshops for refugee youth, worked with collaborate artists and produced a final concert for the public (streaming and limited capacity). This video is an except from Ele ricité Liban, OneBeat Lebanon's final show at Metro al Madina in Hamra on July 31, 2021. OneBeat Lebanon is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and produced by Found Sound Nation. This program was produced with the generous support of the Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.
Roles
Composer, Performer, Technical Live A/V Producer
Appearances
Lebanon Metro Al Madina, Beirut
Team
Created and Performed by Yara Asmar, Ali Hout, Omaya Malaeb, Dylan Greene, and Jeremy Thal
BLACK POST BOX (2021)
Short Film and Installation
Commissioned by Oyoun for their annual Embodied Arts Festival, Gugulethu Duma and Dylan Greene, alongside director Ayanda Duma, created an audio-visual installation called the Black Post Box. Visitors were invited Inside a mobile tiny house one at a time. For 20 minutes, they would sit amongst mirrors, sand, and chains, watching and reflecting on the piece. Afterwards, they were invited to write letters to their ancestors in the form of German visa immigration applications. The Black Post Box was stationed at May Ayim Ufer and Oberbaumstraße in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, from 9th-18th April, 2020. ( Read the Full Write-up )
Roles
Co-curator, Composer, Audio Producer and Sound Designer, Installation Artist
Appearances
Germany at OYOUN Kultur Neudenken for the 2021 Embodied Temporalities Festival