Experiencing Interruptions?

People In Black And White Felt

It’s hard to believe that people in black and white pictures felt the same wind we feel, the same sun we feel, the same love, rage, rebellion. This film is about 100 years of faces and rocks in Seui, Sardinia.

  • Shadi Rabahi
    Creator
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 23 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 3, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy, Lebanon
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography

Shadi Rabahi is a multidisciplinary filmmaker and cultural producer based in Lebanon, with a passion for alternative narratives and a drive to explore both classical and experimental production methods.

With a BA in Audio-Visual Communication from the American University of Technology and 9 years of experience, he has crafted compelling films and impactful social media content. Shadi works primarily in film as a creative producer, with a diverse portfolio of short films, feature films, and web series. His work often focuses on socio-political issues and intimate identity struggles.

He is the founder of Snunu.co and is especially interested in reimagining film financing, production, and distribution through alternative and modern approaches. He currently has multiple short films and a web-series in post-production, along with two feature films in development.

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Director Statement

This film was born during the summer program of Cinemadamare, a film residency/traveling campus, in a small town named Seui, in the middle of the Italian island Sardinia.

With access to the Archivio Fotografico Seuese, which was created by the late Salvatore Priamo Meloni, and the blessing and artistic alignment of his nephew Matteo Sulis, I had the honor to re-animate the faces of the ancestors of Seui today.

Death and life, smiles and frowns, danced in my mind to the music of Ezio Bosso and Ennio Morriconi. I concluded that the defiant landscape and the unshakeable will of the people of Seui remained unchanged since the earliest photograph till today.

Fun fact, the sequence inside the archive was filmed on a tripod that was used by Salvatore himself, so the same spirit that took those photographs was guiding my camera. What an honor.