Wed 25 June 2025
Grands Carmes — Main room — 18:30
Danielle’s raw filmed diary and Moe’s vibrant queer memory of living with a sexually transmitted infection, ignite a collaborative exploration of bodies, intimacy, and shame.
DANIELLE DAVIE
MOHAMAD MOE SABBAH
EMBODIED CHORUS روﯾطﻟا ﺎﻧﻛرﺗﺗ ن — Lebanon/Germany/Luxembourg — 2023 — 72'
A Beirut rooftop conversation about living with Sexually Transmitted Infections opens into a cinematic dialogue, as Danielle and Moe draw raw and vibrant images from their personal experiences. Danielle filmed herself in sober and melancholic images to grasp what is going on, while Moe plays with memories and sensations of a queer body “invaded” by a virus. While they engage with five actresses and actors to embody the testimonies of individuals who also lived with STIs, “forbidden” stories begin to exist and enter a collaborative exploration of intimacy, bodies, stigma and shame.
