Carine Doumit

Carine Doumit writes and edits films and video installations. She also writes short texts and short stories in French, Arabic, and English. Through these intertwined practices and the back and forth between languages, she explores ways to produce multiple voices within a textual, sonic or visual object, as well as the potential of a polyphonic apparatus to blur the frontiers between the real and the imagined. She is a member of The Camelia Committee - مجموعة في الكاميليا, a collective that explores the shape-shifting relations between image, text, voice and sound, through writing, filmmaking and film programming.

THE STORY OF MAß [THE 476 YEAR OLD CHILD] is the second chapter from the BOOK OF CHILDREN project. Maß is the daughter of Liwaa, a poet, playwright, and a dear friend of the author. One day, Doumit finds in a painting at the Pinacotheque de Brera the exact double of Maß. This triggers a series of speculations about both children, the one inside and the one outside the painting, and an epistolary exchange with Liwaa in search for the meaning behind this extraordinary finding.