
Topology of an Absence
2021, XX. Directed by Rami El Sabbagh & Sharif Sehnaoui.
Combining music and film, this work is based on archival footage from the 1920s captured in Lebanon by Pathé and Gaumont. “Topology of an Absence” proposes a new way to look at this archive, a hundred years after unnamed camera operators filmed the city of Beirut and captured bodies, faces, and eyes.
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- 0h 30m
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- 20 August 2021
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Topology of an Absence isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 20 August 2021. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
What movies are like Topology of an Absence?
If you liked Topology of an Absence, try As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button, Naqoyqatsi.
Who directed Topology of an Absence?
Topology of an Absence (2021) was directed by Rami El Sabbagh and Sharif Sehnaoui.