hassane chami
artist & writer

Hassane Chami is a Lebanese-born, Paris-based writer and artist working in experimental film and video art. After several years in documentary production, he turned to a more personal practice that explores the tension between the political and the intimate, the archival and the affective.

His videos often combine found footage, personal archives, sound and music, assembling fragments and contradictions into a single visual field.

At the heart of his practice is a meditation on power and the ethics of seeing — how images shape power, perception, and emotional life. His montage-of-fragments approach allows the universal and the particular, the tender and the violent, the fictional and the historical, the visible and invisible, to coexist.

His films ask: How do we live with what we see? And what does it mean to feel, resist, and remember through fragments?

Hassane’s work has been shown in experimental film festivals and art publications. Since 2020, he has been a contributing writer for Rehla Magazine, where he analyzes film and image in relation to ideology and culture.

VIDEO PROJECTS

ESSAYS

  • On David Lynch and Meaning: The Road to Truth Passes Through an Illusion, Rehla Magazine, #33 "Time Out", April 2025

  • 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
screenings
exhibitions

  • "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