LATENCY AND TRACES: PRATICHE DI RIUSO NELL’OPERA DI JOANA HADJITHOMAS E KHALIL JOREIGE

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are visual artists and film directors who have devoted much of their artistic production to reflecting on images of the civil war that shocked Lebanon in the mid-1970s and early 1990s. The aim of the essay is to analyze the different ways in which the filmmakers, according to the concept of latency, use found footage film and images. Combined with the practices of intervention on and fictionalization of the document and the archive, in the work of Hadjithomas and Joreige the latency of images becomes a documentary and testimonial.