Movies: Etel Adnan

Seen through the work of eight leading artists from the Middle East, Axis of Light is a poignant and absorbing observation of the influences of conflict....

Joana Hadjithomas and the artist and poet Etel Adnan met fifteen years ago. They quickly became close, sharing a city that they had never been to: Smyrna, in Turkey. Joana’s paternal Greek family were forced into exile from Smyrna by the Turkish armi...

The film reconstructs through an array of visual fragments, a multiplicity of languages, of peoples and their identities, the unique portrait of the poet and painter Etel Adnan....

Michael Shamberg's P.S. Beirut, Chapter One is a personal journey to Beirut and the first chapter of a series bent on «discovering» the lost briefcase of Walter Benjamin which went missing when Benjamin's body was found...