Rabih Mroué & Lina Saneh 33 tours et quelques secondes

A young Lebanese man ends his life. In his farewell letter, he asserts that his death is a personal act and cannot to be used for political purposes. Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh, who work as writers, directors and actors in Beirut but are known around the globe, invite us to follow the final days of this imaginary character, as well as the reactions to his suicide. They reconstruct his bedroom where everything continues to live, vibrate and communicate: his television, answerphone, Facebook page, printer etc. This world no longer has any need of a human presence to operate or to create history; information continues to pour out unperturbed… In this semidocumentary show being premiered at the festival, the artistic pair ponder the political paralysis in Lebanon, a country where no spark seems to have been lit by the fire of the Arab revolution. What does this inability to react mean? Can an act of despair like this revive any hope of change in such a divided nation?