Ghassan Halawani

Ghassan Halwani is an artist based in Lebanon, working across drawing, writing, filmmaking, and animation. Following his first short film Jibraltar (2005), and in the aftermath of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, he stepped away from the solo artist path and chose instead to work through collaborations and alliances. In 2012, he contributed to the creation and institutionalization of a national archive dedicated to Missing Persons. In 2018, he completed his film Erased, Ascent of the Invisible. In 2020, he worked on the short film They No Longer See in Land Anything but Square Meters in collaboration with PublicWorks research studio. Between 2012 and 2023, Halwani contributed to the establishment and management of Mansion, a collectively run, free, shared public space. Since 2018, he has also contributed to the establishment and management of the Forest School, a pre-school for children under six. Between 2019 and 2022, he was involved in efforts to establish an association for arts and culture workers, seeking to create a politicized professional body. In 2022, he contributed to the establishment of the Cooperative of Cinema Professions. In 2024, he began teaching “Politics in Image” to master’s students in cinema and visual arts at ALBA University.