 On Three Posters. Reflections on a video-performance, 2006 In this video commentary, the performance artist Rabih Mroué depicts how a video confession by a Lebanese resistance fighter, killed in 1985 on one of the first suicide attacks on the Israeli occupiers of South Lebanon, came about. The chance discovery of the video material shows that the freedom fighter had tried, like an actor, to depict himself in various versions as one already dead and a martyr. This inspired Mroué and the Lebanese historian Elias Khoury to analyse, which artistic and political aspects intersect in the production of such a video. In addition, they look into the question of why such a document, which was developed originally in a secular struggle for freedom, could establish itself as the Islamist strategy of the Hisbollah. Rabih Mroué, * 1967 Beirut (RL), lives and works in Beirut (RL)  Rabih Mroué, On Three Posters. Reflections on a video-performance, 2006(Rabih Mroué/Elias Khoury: Three Posters. Ayloul Festival, Beirut 2000) video (colour, sound), 18 min. courtesy of Sfeir-Semler Gallery photo: Lina Gheibeh
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