Ghassan Salhab (Arabic; غسان سلهب, born 4 May 1958) is a Lebanese screenwriter and film director born in Dakar, Senegal. In addition to making his own films, he collaborates on various scenarios and teaches film in Lebanon.
Career He has directed six feature films; Beyrouth Fantôme, Terra Incognita, The Last Man, 1958, The Mountain and The Valley. His films have been selected in various international film festivals. He has finished the shooting of The River, in addition to numerous "essays" and different "video works" including "Posthumous," "Chinese Ink," "Son Image," and Le voyage Immobile," on which he collaborated with Lebanese documentary filmmaker Mohamed Soueid.
In 2016, he was a DAAD (Berlin) guest-resident. La Rochelle International Film Festival, JC Carthage and La Cinémathèque du Québec made a tribute to his work. He has also published different texts and articles in various magazines and a book, "fragments du Livre du naufrage".
Filmography
Feature films Year Title Notes1998Beyrouth fantôme(2h)2002Terra incognita(1h56)2006The Last Man(1h41)20091958(1h06)2011The Mountain(1h24)2014The Valley(2h14)2021The River(1h41)
Other works Year Title Notes1986 The Key(15')1991The Other(10')1991 After Death(21')1994Afrique fantôme(21')1999Of Seduction(32') co-directed with Nesrine Khodr2000Nobody's Rose(10')2000Baalbeck(56') in 3 parts, the 2 other by Akram Zaatari and Mohamed Soueid2003My dead body, my living body(14')2004Lost Narcissus(15')2005Brève rencontre avec Jean Luc Godard(40')2006Dead Time(7')2007(Posthumous)(29')2010Le massacre des innocents(triptych-video, 28')2012Everybody know this is nowhere(diptych-video, 15')2016Son Image(diptych-video, 22')2017Chinese Ink(55')2018Le voyage immobile(23') co-directed with Mohamed Soueid2019Une rose ouverte(1h12)
Publications Fragments du livre du naufrage, Amers Editions, 2011
Exhibitions Group exhibitions Beirut Lab: 1975(2020) Curated by Juli Carson and Yassmeen Tukan, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, 2019
References
External links Ghassan Salhab's Official Website