8.30pm (Run time: 92')

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH (map)

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As part of Dala Nasser’s major new commission Cemetery of Martyrs, Peer has collaborated with the Institute of Contemporary Arts to present a public screening of One Hundred Faces for a Single Day (Mi'at Wajeh Li Yawm Wahed) (1972), directed by Christian Ghazi.

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Director and activist, Christian Ghazi (1934-2013) began his career making dozens of commissioned films in Lebanon, mostly centered on the struggles of resistance fighters, refugee camp dwellers, tobacco farmers, and factory workers. In 1988, the majority of his body of work was destroyed when militia fighters broke into his home and burned all his film negatives. 

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Made in 1969 and released in 1972, One Hundred Faces for a Single Day, is one of only two of Ghazi’s surviving works. The film critiques the behaviour of Beirut’s elites during Lebanon’s Golden Age, contrasting their apathy and comfort with the struggles of the working class. Presented as a jagged visual and sonic collage, the avant-garde and experimental 16mm film is considered his “personal manifesto to cinema.”

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The screening is preceded by Theatre in the Cross of the Wind (2011), Nancy el Hajj’s short documentary (28’) centering Ghazi’s wider body of work and influence. 

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Both films are distributed by Nadi LeKol Nas, Beirut.


Tickets are £6 – 16, please book here. To find out more about access at the ICA, visit here.