Souaiby Eli

Born in Beirut. Graduated in international business management then followed FILM FORMS studies at The National Film School of Denmark in Copenhagen. Since 2011, startedworking as a video art curator with ArtVideoExchange programming based in Oslo.
Jury member at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruck – 26th Edition.
Lives and tries to work in Beirut in the film production field, videos and photography.

Collective exhibitions
Be-sides (Goethe-Institut, 2008) – Photography
Salon D’automne (Musée Sursock, 2008/2010/2012) – Photography
Les Jeux De la Francophonie – Badguer 2009 – Photography
‘Town Down’ a visual 3d mapping creation by Solid Air Collective – UFA Building.

Filmography
Hands: screened at Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya, CPH:DOX, Videoformes – Clermont-Ferrandand
Stillhetsfestivalen – Oslo.
wired: screened at Oberhausen Film Festival, Magmart VII, Kunstfilmtag 012, VideoformesClermont-Ferrand, Atopia gallery – Oslo, Institut Francais de Prague, Small Projects gallery –Tromso, Vuotociclo-Napoli, Fonlad Portugal, Péniche Cinema-Paris, Vyatka Art Museum -Russia and in the permanent collection of CAM_CASORIA museum – Napoli.
2min. 12 dans la rue: Beirut Art Center (part of a workshop conducted by Christian Barani)