https://jadhyoussef.com jadyoussef Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:42:50 +0000 https://jadhyoussef.com en https://jadhyoussef.com/Front-page Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:51:34 +0000 jadyoussef https://jadhyoussef.com/Front-page <img width="2120" height="1488" width_o="2120" height_o="1488" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79ac1dead85503fca69301eb241d31e3c90f9a05b28c840e27cf7843653ab24c/Screen-Shot-2022-08-13-at-8.55.14-PM.png" data-mid="150322418" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="الأرض المستباحة Radius Catastrophe .2025" data-caption="الأرض المستباحة Radius Catastrophe .2025" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79ac1dead85503fca69301eb241d31e3c90f9a05b28c840e27cf7843653ab24c/Screen-Shot-2022-08-13-at-8.55.14-PM.png" /> https://jadhyoussef.com/Mobile-nav Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:51:35 +0000 jadyoussef https://jadhyoussef.com/Mobile-nav Jad Youssef Mobile version under construction, please navigate on a desktop/laptop https://jadhyoussef.com/Radius-Catastrophe Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:51:35 +0000 jadyoussef https://jadhyoussef.com/Radius-Catastrophe 2025 - Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor, Co-Producer 39’ Essay film This project is supported by Goethe institut’s Weaving Ties support fund and AFAC’s Visual Arts grant. <img width="2120" height="1494" width_o="2120" height_o="1494" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d4184ea744ad96e3042e06b1a4baf22c3d74ab981beb4269740aacb3a7142ea/Screen-Shot-2022-08-14-at-12.10.24-AM.png" data-mid="150325269" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d4184ea744ad96e3042e06b1a4baf22c3d74ab981beb4269740aacb3a7142ea/Screen-Shot-2022-08-14-at-12.10.24-AM.png" /> <img width="1534" height="1079" width_o="1534" height_o="1079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc97c5222077ed27ca72590d774f1fec626b9779b0668c3490792f64405db9dd/dogs.jpg" data-mid="154253082" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc97c5222077ed27ca72590d774f1fec626b9779b0668c3490792f64405db9dd/dogs.jpg" /> Following an alien agent sent to Earth to examine a murder— a couple killing a greengrocer to clear their debt—Radius Catastrophe الأرض المستباحة maps Lebanon’s Northside coastline. The agent’s search for evidence expands into an inquiry into the region’s slow violence, ecological collapse, and industrial decay. As direct causality breaks down, the investigation reveals a marginalized landscape shaped by systemic neglect and economic desperation. What begins as a crime report becomes a broader study of a place where human and industrial forces intersect, exposing the structural conditions that make violence an embedded part of daily survival. Screened atImages Festival, Canada, 2025BFI London, UK, 2025ULTRAcinema, Mexico, 2025Ecrans Du Reel, Lebanon, 2025 Beijing International Short Film Festival, China, 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="1529" height="1078" width_o="1529" height_o="1078" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e107d5aa3fa58b6e794f10cbfc600672545183be2d3efc13fd7fd1477e05f8a9/Jad-Youssef---i-can-ii-everythingelse.jpg" data-mid="150325270" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e107d5aa3fa58b6e794f10cbfc600672545183be2d3efc13fd7fd1477e05f8a9/Jad-Youssef---i-can-ii-everythingelse.jpg" /> https://jadhyoussef.com/Red-In-Tooth Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:51:37 +0000 jadyoussef https://jadhyoussef.com/Red-In-Tooth 2021 - Cinematographer, Editor, Co-producer An essay film by Dala Nasser19’ <img width="2826" height="1586" width_o="2826" height_o="1586" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/055592d371323cc3f1d9bc1072dfedb3964b3f2cc192c0697586498f3b5baf25/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-1.45.14-PM.png" data-mid="150527775" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/055592d371323cc3f1d9bc1072dfedb3964b3f2cc192c0697586498f3b5baf25/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-1.45.14-PM.png" /> Red in Tooth follows the drive towards the Wazzani River along the UN enforced Blue Line in the south of Lebanon. This trip questions the notion of freedom on the open road when borders are so violently enforced. Wild animals lead the way as they traverse the landscape taking us into their elsewhere realms. This wild body constantly gathers and processes the interventions ravaging their surrounding ecology; then in its judgement releases its ferociousness, and stands as a force against Human despotism.&nbsp; Screened at The Centre Pompidou, Paris, FranceKölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Musée d'art de Joliette, Quebec, Canada Westminster University - Art and Law event, London, England Red In Tooth was conceived through sporadic road trips over the course of three months back an forth to the South&nbsp;of Lebanon. Bordering Lebanese and Palestenian territories, the wall was buil by Israeli occupation forces as a separatist gesture. The wall does not only reflect a politics of inaccessibility, but renders the surrounding environment uninviting to the locals, as well lends it as a territory for local resistance forces. The video documents the road trip, the stretch of wall, the wazzani river - which flows between bot countries and which the local part was used for an illegal irrigation system by the same occupational forces. Directed by Dala Nasser, this work was a closely intimate collaboration between Nasser, myself and artist/architect/sound engineer Mohamed Safa. After extensive discussions we closely built the structure and conceptualized an aesthetic that allows us to freely input each their own appropriate understanding of the concerns raised in the film. Animation was done by architect/visual researcher Sabine Saba who conceived of the blue line as a separatist strip that, like a river, acts as a natural divider between lands. Additionally, trap camera footage and land location tracking were achieved with the help of Jawad Al Amin. https://jadhyoussef.com/The-Flood Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:51:39 +0000 jadyoussef https://jadhyoussef.com/The-Flood 2018 - Director, Cinematographer, Writer, Editor19’ <img width="2382" height="1584" width_o="2382" height_o="1584" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c08b5b56baaef5ed0793144a8a9ab8e1c22ad962aa98f02d52be7e48ee89c829/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-1.36.03-PM.png" data-mid="150527548" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c08b5b56baaef5ed0793144a8a9ab8e1c22ad962aa98f02d52be7e48ee89c829/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-1.36.03-PM.png" /> <img width="2380" height="1578" width_o="2380" height_o="1578" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d44beaf09fb2d73950a732222fef26e101cb734fdb336dc205d05d42676099cb/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-1.41.50-PM.png" data-mid="150527706" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d44beaf09fb2d73950a732222fef26e101cb734fdb336dc205d05d42676099cb/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-1.41.50-PM.png" /> <img width="2386" height="1594" width_o="2386" height_o="1594" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb11de620c63def4b6e274b108cc0f1dd235f9083c61bfdaacfee776d559e19e/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-1.36.36-PM.png" data-mid="150527547" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb11de620c63def4b6e274b108cc0f1dd235f9083c61bfdaacfee776d559e19e/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-1.36.36-PM.png" /> The Flood is a short essay film narrating the despondent dwellings of Hatem - based on a research with a real person - a man who used his small boat to transport people from shore to cargo ships in order to escape Lebanon. Secrecy molds the morbid drifting of Hatem, a man who works in privacy and lives his life accordingly. He hides more than he tells, clouding himself in a reclusive state of seclusion and indignation. Screened at Dawawine, BeirutEye Film Muesuem, Amsterdam Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin الفيضان | the flood&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;pss: flood &nbsp; &nbsp; https://jadhyoussef.com/A-Thin-Soft-Layer Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:38:50 +0000 jadyoussef https://jadhyoussef.com/A-Thin-Soft-Layer 2014 - Director, Editor Unfinished short fictionProduced with Ashkal Alwan’s 2014 VideoWorks program 45’ Screened at Metropolis Cinema a thin soft layer of is the story of&nbsp;Najib, who struggles to end his days, to meet his girlfriend whose current connection with is limited to phone calls and who drifts aimlessly around the city of Beirut. He keeps busy by watching the video works produced by his students, as he deviates internally from the world around him. https://jadhyoussef.com/Transmission Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:40:12 +0000 jadyoussef https://jadhyoussef.com/Transmission 2013 - Director, Editor BA Graduation film 19’ Screened at Dawawine, BeirutRencontres Internationales Paris/BerlinLa Distributrice, Canada An epileptic man spends his day escpaing his own suicide. https://jadhyoussef.com/Additional-Work Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:42:50 +0000 jadyoussef https://jadhyoussef.com/Additional-Work 2023 - Writer Techno-Nightmares and Retro-FuturesA speculative syllabus publication for Syllabus Project <img width="12297" height="6051" width_o="12297" height_o="6051" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3af4bc5fc480a346d73dabb02a104fa4154c9198e204fe091a3cf7a99cab7a8f/img_0415.png" data-mid="177959835" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3af4bc5fc480a346d73dabb02a104fa4154c9198e204fe091a3cf7a99cab7a8f/img_0415.png" /> Enter the link above for full quality visual 2022-2023 - Cinematographer A 3 parts video work by Helene KazanClick Here for work description Part1, 15’, premiered on E-FluxPart2, 15’, premiered at Beirut Art Center <img width="1896" height="1028" width_o="1896" height_o="1028" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b161d219a423d5793a0e944082de9adb9cbd2a36cfaa9ec3251ae5944966202f/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-12.06.28-PM.png" data-mid="153060934" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b161d219a423d5793a0e944082de9adb9cbd2a36cfaa9ec3251ae5944966202f/Screen-Shot-2022-08-16-at-12.06.28-PM.png" /> still from part2 *Part3, 15’, is in production 2023 - ArtistA Dire Affair is an Instagram series of 10 digital images/videos/text for Tabaan’s themed “NO” project initiative by&nbsp;Studio Kawakeb and WARAQ. <img width="1532" height="1168" width_o="1532" height_o="1168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4acaf8ae852fe348bb23b7e98cbbd82ebe0cb91326c80957b9b262beb8d6cf8e/Screen-Shot-2022-09-24-at-3.16.41-PM.png" data-mid="153873069" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4acaf8ae852fe348bb23b7e98cbbd82ebe0cb91326c80957b9b262beb8d6cf8e/Screen-Shot-2022-09-24-at-3.16.41-PM.png" /> <img width="1538" height="876" width_o="1538" height_o="876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39be5761c8eb478f15c4d55f9ee1f47e1a0db2aeb9df517a601819ba88f2e4fc/Screen-Shot-2022-09-24-at-3.17.27-PM.png" data-mid="153870739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39be5761c8eb478f15c4d55f9ee1f47e1a0db2aeb9df517a601819ba88f2e4fc/Screen-Shot-2022-09-24-at-3.17.27-PM.png" /> For more info about the project click here 2023 - Line producer, co-CinematographyA feature documentary by Ismael Louati 90’ "Hackers of Borders” is a tale of resilience, an intimate mosaic of beings representing the multiplicity and complexity of the future of humanity at a time when displaced populations around the world are no more than statistics and stereotyped figures through the media and politicians.What is the documentary cinema if not giving a face to those whose image is frozen in the imaginary? For us they are refugees. But how do they see themselves? Basically, the question of Hackers of Borders is: who am I? Who am I if I'm born stateless, if I can't remember my homeland, if I can't make my dream come true, if I can't choose my sexual identity, if I can't be buried with dignity?" <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb3212f6bd20e432de1ee3102ab9131a32280852362bf6db2b802ce88246badd/HoB_KHAYREYA.png" data-mid="154020411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb3212f6bd20e432de1ee3102ab9131a32280852362bf6db2b802ce88246badd/HoB_KHAYREYA.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64e0b869b3c02fc0444830eb10bcd2b8c13cdb6102f2d7a99bd1f274f6d913a0/HoB_FADI.png" data-mid="154020424" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64e0b869b3c02fc0444830eb10bcd2b8c13cdb6102f2d7a99bd1f274f6d913a0/HoB_FADI.png" /> 2021 - Cinematographer, EditorThe Dead Shall Be Raised A video by Dala Nasser12’The Dead Shall Be Raised is a semi-fictional documentation of Dala’s artwork, tracing ruins, in Tyre.Screened at Deborah Schamoni, Munich, 2021 Boghossian Foundation, Belgium, 2022 Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2022 2021 - EditorA video by Monica Basbous, Adriana Basbous and Sabine Saba 21’ Where Will The Future Take Place? - Excercise 1 is a video speculation presented at DeepCity 2021, exhibition on climate change, democracy and the digital under the theme data, democracy and sovereignty: Towards New Urban and Political Imaginaries. 2020 - EditorA 3 episodes documentary by Mohamed Berro To Live and Let Live” is part of Berro’s solo exhibition at Beirut Art Center. 2018 - Director, EditorMusic video for Toni Geitani’s Raboukoum 2017 - Director, Cinematographer, EditorMA research visual abstrac&nbsp; 2017 - Show Runner5 episodes web series&nbsp;Produced by Cinemoz and directed by Mohamed Berro <img width="1000" height="1328" width_o="1000" height_o="1328" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1dd2d0bdb96e8edebb404afbfb1ee3676f19e05ce826a985f8a5b724590c40ff/MV5BYTUxZTAxNGItNTBjZC00MzU4LWFiZDAtNjQzYzExOWIzNWVlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTgwNzExNTM._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" data-mid="178028856" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1dd2d0bdb96e8edebb404afbfb1ee3676f19e05ce826a985f8a5b724590c40ff/MV5BYTUxZTAxNGItNTBjZC00MzU4LWFiZDAtNjQzYzExOWIzNWVlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTgwNzExNTM._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" /> Episode 1 Full series available on youtube 2016 - CinematographerA documentary-essay by Panos Aprahamian 28’ Yabandjo is a documentary-essay investigating the remnants of a traumatic past in bodies consumed by history as an uncertain future looms over the landscapes they inhabit. Landscapes that are in the process of being transformed into what will no longer be recognized by the present, where the camera intervenes to document that which will soon be no more. The landscapes of Anjar, a small town in rural Lebanon only a few miles from the Syrian border and inhabited by ethnic Armenians where the ordinary and the uncanny meet in a border community in transition haunted by a dark past and an unknown future.