Kink Retrograde (2022) was shot in 2019 in a sea-side landfill on the outskirts of Beirut, against a backdrop of environmental collapse and toxicity. In the film's original plot, the intoxicated characters decide that the social contract between themselves and the sovereign powers has always been breached; they must devise a novel type of contract aware of its own abjectness, risk, and deviance—one of total kink. The remake revises and rehearses that call for a risk-aware kink, in light of recent historical and biographical events in the life of the city and the author.
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Music: Zeynab Ghandour aka Thoom and Pad Fut
Performer: Rayyan Abdelkhalek, with appearances by Jessika Khazrik, Veda Thozhur Kolleri, Nada Zanhour
Equipment provided by Panos Aprahamian and Ashkal Alwan
Interior shots at Mkalles Warehouse, courtesy of Renata Sabella
