Firas El Hallak

The experimental documentary focuses on the unfinished dome of the Rachid Karame International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon, conceived and designed by renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1962. Filmed across 5 days and featuring over 8 acoustic performances recorded inside the dome, the film is an experimental essay on the interplay of dualities between architecture and sound, past and present, life and death, adaptation and rejection. The film evokes implicit similarities and parallels between the fate of the dome as an abandoned, unfinished structure and the fate of Lebanon as a failed state in crisis, both requiring a certain level of adaptation for continuity and survival.