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Mireille (Eid) Astore

Female Australian Artist -Beirut, 1961

Mirelle is an artist and a writer. She left Beirut during the Lebanese civil war in 1975 to live in Melbourne, Australia. Influenced by Continental Philosophy, her art draws on autobiographical notions of representation and the unheimlich; where the conscious intersects with the unconscious. 
http://www.oneart.org/biographies/artist/mireille-astore

Through her art and her writing she "explores human emotions" and "asks what it is to be human"
Mireille Astore attained a PhD in Contemporary Arts from the University of Western Sydney (2008). She was Research Affiliate (2009–2013) at Sydney College of the Arts, the Visual Arts Faculty of the University of Sydney and Research Fellow (2011–2012) at the American University of Beirut.
A short film directed by Astore that was based on the "Tampa" work, "Tampa: a Walk on the Beach", was screened in Sydney and London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireille_Astore

Short Films

After "Tampa: a Walk on the Beach", Astore's short film, "Not From Here" "questions the legitimacy of the original photograph" It has been shown in galleries and film festivals in over 20 countries. Some international screenings include the né à Beirut Film Festival in Beirut, the Toronto Arab Film Festival and the Cinema East Film Festival in New York and the Konstföreningen Aura Gallery in Sweden. Another short film, "3494 Houses + 1 Fence", which juxtaposed images of houses in Australia with scenes from a war damaged fence in Lebanon "create[s] a striking picture of her awareness of the contrasts between her memories and her current life". It was selected to feature in the Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran Film Festival and was included on the third volume of the "Resistance(s)" DVD series
https://vimeo.com/79085564





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