video, 5 min
In 1976, towards the beginning of the Lebanese civil war, a group of young people found themselves without activity. These teenagers had neither the means nor the will to fight. They called on the musicians of the Lebanese Army, who had no function during the fights to teach them music. They formed a fanfare and played music in the festive occasions of the village and neighboring villages. This band was the meeting place for several couples. In 1984 a musician from the village disappeared, and this incident broke up the band.
33 years later, in 2017, I asked a married couple, who met each other in the fanfare, to re-play a piece of music for the first time since the interruption of their musical activity, in front of the
camera, without any training or rehearsal, on the same drums they were keeping in the attic. The mastery of the situation that can be seen in the first seconds or minutes of the video is soon replaced by errors, omissions and dissonances.