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

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