FILM

The film reflects the importance Hadjithomas and Joreige attach  to history taking place in the margins of official history – as well  as, in their artistic approach, to archives. They trace the forgotten  adventure of the rocket scientist project conducted in the 1960s  by a group of students of the Armenian university in Beirut, an  adventure with surrealist allures. The artists are in search of documents, virtually disappeared photos and films, which confront  them at the same time with the project’s absence from collective as well as individual memories and imaginings. At the same time, they also tell about the years of pan-Arabism – until its decline in 1967, imposed by Israel – and the transformations in the Arab world.