After
Hours Film School

After Hours Film School is a workshop series devoted to new currents in cinematic practice, organized by Kirsten Gill and Rachel Valinsky. This in-person, seminar-style session with Joyce Joumaa examines infrastructural destruction and land dispossession in South Lebanon, and how those histories can be approached through speculation and reenactment. It centers on Joumaa's 2026 film Disappearance Is Not Death, about military leader and folk hero Youssef Bey Karam, alongside films by Jayce Salloum and Jocelyn Saab and the 1983 interview with Jean Genet, “Affirmation of Existence through Rebellion.” The discussion also considers how cinematic form and the political image address sustaining life under conditions designed to foreclose it. The workshop is limited to 15 participants. Admission is $25–75 on a sliding scale, with no one turned away for lack of funds. No prior filmmaking experience is required.