project description

We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass is a documentary video in five parts about competing visions of an uncertain future. Shot in 2005-06 in Damascus, Syria, each section of the piece - the chronicle of a building in downtown Damascus, a recitation anticipating the arrival of a perfect leader, an interview with a dissident intellectual, a portrait of a Qur'an school for young girls, and an imagining of the world made anew - offers a different perspective on what might come to pass in a place where people live between the competing forces of a repressive regime, a growing conservative Islamic movement, and intense pressure from the United States.

archive.transmediale.de/site/index.php?id=156 (transmediale website archive)

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project site: www.meltzerthorne.com/wedont

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[01] - [06] Julia Meltzer & David Thorne: We will live to see these things