Director
Rana Eid
Year
2017
Duration
69 min
Subtitles
English
Content Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with her country’s turbulent past. Panoptic delves into Beirut’s underground to explore Lebanon’s schizophrenia: a nation that thrives for modernity while ironically ignoring the vices that obstruct achieving this modernity. While the Lebanese population has chosen to turn a blind eye to these vices, Rana Eid, an ordinary citizen, explores the nation’s paradoxes through sound, iconic monuments and secret hidings.