déjà morts / already dead
Spring 2020 – during confinement, I had the habit of taking the car and going for a ride adjacent to the Beirut port. After August 4, this route was no longer possible. I did, however, sometimes go there and dare to take a shot, but not of the port. Just of a building opposite. Today, the words of the first fragment of the collection of poems The End of the World Has Already Occurred resurface in the images of this building.
Ghada Sayegh is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematic studies, Saint Joseph University of Beirut. A member of the editorial board of the Montreal-based online cinema journal Hors Champ, she has published numerous articles on cinema and contemporary art in Lebanon. For the past four years, she has been writing poetic fragments — 44 to date — under the title The end of the word has already occurred, which is evolving into an artistic project exploring the relationship between text and image. In 2024, she completed two experimental videos based on texts from this project: here afar (8’, 2024) and already dead (7’, 2024). Her most recent film, météores… (9’, 2025), is a found footage film composed of images from the Katsakh Mediterranean Archives — a personal collection of non-fiction Super 8mm and 16mm films capturing cities and villages across the Eastern Mediterranean from the 1930s to the 1980s, initiated by Chantal Partamian in 2020.
Film translated by: Hamza Lamrani
Lebanon, 2024, 7’
Director: Ghada Sayegh
