The Diary of a Sky

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The Diary of a Sky, is a 2024 Lebanese movie, directed by Lawrence Abu Hamdan. with a runtime of 45 minutes.

Overview

The Diary of a Sky is a 45-minute video essay that immerses viewers in the relentless acoustic violence blanketing Beirut's airspace. The film layers the constant drone of Israeli military aircraft conducting repeated incursions over Lebanon with the background hum of generators filling the gaps left by chronic power cuts. Together these sounds form a documentary portrait of daily life under a weaponised sky — where terror has been normalised into background noise and the extraordinary has become grimly routine. Haunting and formally rigorous, The Diary of a Sky is an important work of Arabic documentary filmmaking that chronicles how a city endures when the air itself becomes a site of aggression.

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