Artist

Mahmoud Hojeij

Born in Lebanon 1975.
Studied Communication Arts at the Lebanese American University and completed his masters in Media Studies at the New School University.
He is now a Ph.D candidate in Communication at European Graduate School.
His video work include:
transitvisa (cultural workshop in collaboration with akram zaatari) 2001
Taqaseem 2001
shamelss transmission of desired transformations per day 2000
beirut palermo beirut 1998
once 1997

He has written and directed several plays and TV programs and is now working on various projects (docmentary, video, photography, writing) between New York and Beirut. His videos have won international awards in Brasil, Italy and United States of America.

Artist Code: 648

Videography

Shameless Transmission of Desired Transformations per day

2000, 25:00 minutes, colour, Arabic with English subtitles

Beirut palermo beirut

1998, 17:00 minutes, colour, Arabic with English subtitles

Critical Writing

What Is That and between Arab Women and Video?: The Case of Beirut
by Laura U. Marks. Camera Obscura, 2003, v. 18, no. 3.
What is That and between Arab Women and Video?: The Case of Beirut
by Laura U. Marks. Camera Obscura, 2003, v. 18, no. 3.
Transit visa to the Labyrinth
by Jalal Tawfiq. Transit visa on video and cities, 2001. Beirut: Transit visa, 2001.