Concrete Forms of Resistance

Nick Jordan 

United Kingdom, 2019, 27’

Filmed in Tripoli, Lebanon, "Concrete Forms of Resistance" is a documentary centred upon the city’s abandoned ‘Permanent International Fair’, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the mid-1960s. The film presents themes of progress and crisis, labour and capital, material and memory, contrasting the utopian vision of the original plans with the stark realities of sectarian divisions, regional conflicts and rising economic inequalities.