Born in Lebanon, Hassane Chami is a French-based film essayist and writer.
After working as a documentary film producer for multiple years, he decided to dedicate himself to making film essays and experimental videos.

His work uses found footage, sounds, data and archives.
He uses images to critique image-as-ideology and deconstruct it; and to present utopian poetic imagery that can dream of different futures.

Hassane is a contributing writer in the Lebanese-based Rehla Magazine since 2020. His writings deal with film and image analysis in relation to ideological, social and cultural phenomena.

His visual work participate in several experimental festivals and are programmed in art magazines.

VIDEO PROJECTS

• Adventures of Loss & Love, International Competition at the Videoex Festival in Zurich, Switzerland, May 2024
  videoex.ch/videoex/festival-2024/programm-2024/international-competition/int04/045/
  
  

• Those Who Watched, February 2024, Rehla Magazine
  
  

• "Adventures of Loss & Love", May 2023, ZoomOut Magazine
  
  

• "Fashion Victims", April 2023, Rehla Magazine
  
  

• Adventures of Loss & Love: March 2023, Mozilla Festival in the "Is the Machine Learning Art History?" programme
  
  

• Adventure of Loss & Love: October 2022, Rehla Magazine
  
  

• Tanki Tanki, LFF Canada, June 2023
  https://lffcanada.com/court-metrages-montreal-2023/?lang=fr
  
  

• Tanki Tanki, May 2022, Videoex Film Festival in Zurich in the Second-Hand Fictions programme. Curated by Nour Ouayda:
  https://videoex.ch/videoex/festival-2022/programm-2022/gastprogramm-arab-wave/aw-aegypten-iii/tanki-tanki-hassane-chami-lb-2022-xx-0246-min/
  
  

• Tanki Tanki, April 2022, Rehla Magazine #24, "Desire".
  
  

• Metaphysics of Power, Rehla Magazine, August 2021
  
  

• Black Revolution / White Revolution: April 2021 European Media Arts Festival in the Show Us the Money and We Will Resist programme:
  https://2021.emaf.de/program/?id=14871&lang=en
  
  

• Beirut Tik Tak, Rehla Magazine, October 2021
  
  

• "Black Revolution / White Revolution", July 2020, Rehla Magazine #12

ESSAYS

• Varda's "Vagabond": In Quest of the Impossible Adventure, Rehla Magazine, #26 "Adventures", September 2022
  
  

• "Lovers on the Bridge": Our Love is Stronger than the City's Concrete, Rehla Magazine, #24 "Desire", April 2022
  
  

• Fear and Madness in Kubrick's "Strangelove", Rehla Magazine, #22 "Beirut, a ticking time bomb", October 2022
  
  

• The Archive in "Off Frame": the Palestinian Revolutionary Eye Doesn't Grow Old, Rehla Magazine, #21 "Palestine", July 2021
  
  

• Frankenstein: A Revolution Born From Organs, Rehla Magazine, #19 "We Are Born Every Day", March 2021
  
  

• Contagion and the Virus of Capitalist Realism, Rehla Magazine, #17 "The Contemporary Human", November 2020
  
  

• Koji Wakamatsu's "Caterpillar": Against the Authority of Normality, Rehla Magazine, #16 "No More Normal", October 2020
  
  

• Carrie and "le passage à l'acte": Witches vs Power, Rehla Magazine, #15 "Into the Clinic", September 2020
  
  

• Into Grandrieux's Darkness: This World Doesn't Love Us Any More, Rehla Magazine, #13 "Darkness", August 2020

biography

publications

• "The Neighborhood of the Sun" Before the End of History, Rehla Magazine, #12 "Distancing", June 2020
  
  

• Elio Petri and Workers' Heaven: A Lot of Alienation, a Bit of Revolution, Rehla Magazine, #11 "Nostalgia", May 2020
  
  

• Made in Hollywood: A Spectre Haunts America, Rehla Magazine, #10 "Nostalgia", April 2020
  
  

• Salò: Pasolini Dissects the Neoliberal Body, Rehla Magazine, #9 "Dystopia", March 2020