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Thesong‘Filbahr’(AtSea)extolsthemoonintwenty-eightdifferentwaysbeforefinallymakingitspointaboutthefleetingnatureofloveattheend.Differentvariationsononeandthesamething,eachanoriginal:28NightsandaPoemisaninterpretationofthearchiveoftheSheherazadephotostudio.PhotographerHashemelMadaniopenedthestudioin1953intheLebanesecityofSaïdaafterspendingyearsphotographingpeopleinfrontoftheirshops,inpublicsquaresoratthebeachtosatisfytheirwishtoappearbeforethecamera.Someoftheposeshecapturedonfilmwereadoptedbythosewhosawthephotographsandsubsequentlytookonalifeoftheirown.Theywererecordedbyphotoand8mmcamerasandareaccompaniedinthefilmbysongsrecordedoncassettetapesandplayedbackonalaptop,togetherwithelMadani’sstories.Inonechildren’sprogramme,apolyphonicsongisusedtoteachthealphabet.Thearchive’snumericalorderingsystemistopsy-turvybecausethebookletwiththelistofrecordingswasheldthewrongwayround.Thearchivedoesnotactuallyexistinitself,butisgeneratedbyasystemofrecordingsandtransmissionsininfinitevariations.berlinale2015