Born in Beirut, Georges Salameh is a lens based artiste and film-maker.
He lived in Beit Mery, Athens, Larnaca, Cairo and Palermo.
Since 1998, has created video and photographic installations, photography books, directed documentaries, animation and essay films.
His work and research has been experiential, shaped around the notion of sedimentation, both in the physical and metaphysical sense, through a creative comparison of reality, languages, and narratives. His raw materials are archives, recordings, reconstructions, gestures, peripatetic experiences and a sense of listening and hearing.
His projects are produced over long periods of time.
His tales look more like a letter to a friend, words said or left unsaid, all floating down the stream of oblivion. Oblivion leaves sediments too, on the surface of cities and in the depths of the sea. These may in time even become memory.
Selected Works
HOLD MY ME (Greece 2005, 12min)
MOUNT FALAKRO/ΟΡΟΣ ΦΑΛΑΚΡΟ (Italy 2007, 29min)
MAESMAK (Italy, 2008, 20min)
TI VITTI (Italy 2012, 29min)
THE INVISIBLE HANDS (Greece-Egypt 2017, 97min)
CLAW MACHINE (Greece 2023, 14min)
HIPPODAMIA/ΙΠΠΟΔΑΜΕΙΑ (Greece 2023, 17min)
Awards
MAESMAK - CON-CAN Movie Festival (Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 2009)
TI VITTI - FICTS (Milano, Italy, Dec 2012) Guirlande d’Honneur for Best Short Documentary
THE INVISIBLE HANDS -Berlinale Forum Expanded (Berlin, Germany, February 2018) - Awarded the 10th Giuseppe Becce Prize for Best Music by independent critics Jury at Berlinale (International Premiere)
CLAW MACHINE - Sole Luna Doc (Palermo, Sicily, August 2023) 2 AWARDS / PREMIO FILM FOR OUR FUTURE & AUDIENCE AWARD
CLAW MACHINE - REEF (Kobayet, Lebanon, Sept. 2023) AWARD / SHORT FILM COMPETITION FIRST PRIZE
STRAGALINOS KONSTANTINOS
Roviros Manthoulis
