The Diary of a Sky

Lebanon | 2024 | 44 min | Documentary “The Diary of a Sky” unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts. This 45-minute video essay plunges viewers into a chilling chronicle of daily life transformed by the weaponization of the air, where the terror of repeated incursions becomes a disconcertingly banal backdrop. A film by Lawrence Abu Hamdan Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an independent investigator or Private Ear as well as an artist born in 1985 in Amman, Jordan. His investigations focus on sound and linguistics and have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organisations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International together with fellow researchers from Forensic Architecture. Abu Hamdan received his PhD in 2017 from Goldsmiths College University of London and in 2021 completed a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz where he developed his research AirPressure.info. Past fellowships have been held at the University of Chicago and the New School, New York. Winner of the Turner Prize (2019), he lives and works between Beirut and Dubai.