Space / gesture / staging
Spaces become characters.
Rooms, painted walls and staged gestures connect three distinct film worlds.
Samir Kawas · Director · HABIB · Music artist & creative producer
Body / water / inscription
Bodies carry landscapes.
Water, skin and inscriptions move between film, projection and layered portraiture.
William Okaily pictured · With Rita Choueifaty & Taline Bedikian
Image / document / belonging
Belonging takes form.
Portraits, prints and imagined passports make identity an image to question.
William Okaily pictured · 2026 digital cover studies
Letter / object / identity
Language becomes public.
Lettering, books and a visual identity carry the practice into collaboration.
Elias Bou-Issa · Author · With The Striped Hyenas
Scroll through the connections
Original works, recomposed for this homepage
Space / gesture / staging
Spaces become characters.
Rooms, painted walls and staged gestures connect three distinct film worlds.
Samir Kawas · Director · HABIB · Music artist & creative producer
Body / water / inscription
Bodies carry landscapes.
Water, skin and inscriptions move between film, projection and layered portraiture.
William Okaily pictured · With Rita Choueifaty & Taline Bedikian
Image / document / belonging
Belonging takes form.
Portraits, prints and imagined passports make identity an image to question.
William Okaily pictured · 2026 digital cover studies
Letter / object / identity
Language becomes public.
Lettering, books and a visual identity carry the practice into collaboration.
Elias Bou-Issa · Author · With The Striped Hyenas
The works, individually
All 74 works ↗āhDirector & screenwriter↗JabbaraProduction designer↗ParadiseDirector, co-editor & colorist↗Interwoven (Ana Min?)Artist↗Salaam — Visuals for Dvořák’s Piano QuintetCo-creator of projected visuals↗EnchantressProduction designer↗Perceiving Nationhood PassportsArtist↗terminal x: uncanny encountersArtist↗lkelLmétCover design & title lettering↗Hyam El Hachem Law FirmBrand direction, visual identity, motion & digital experience↗
Awards & honours
An internationally
awarded practice.
Recognition reaches across Alex’s artist-led films, commissioned and collaborative work, and personal practice—from Lebanon and the United States to Europe and Brazil.
Explore awards & honours ↗Russia · 2021
Honorable mention
Honorable Mention · āh
ISAFF Saint Petersburg
For āh · Alex: director & screenwriter
A distinction from the Saint Petersburg International Short & Symbolic Art Film Festival.
Brazil
Film craft award
Best Production Design
Rio International Monthly Awards Film Festival
For My All · Alex: production design & assistant direction
Rio de Janeiro-based online competition. Listed in the film’s published festival history; year and round are not specified.
Poland · 2019
Audience award
Best Short · Jabbara
Splat!FilmFest
For Jabbara · Alex: production designer
One of six audience awards received by the film in Splat!FilmFest’s 2019 programme.
United Kingdom · August 2019
Film award
2nd Film of the Month · Jabbara
The Monthly Film Festival
For Jabbara · Alex: production designer
TMFF is an online competition based in Glasgow. This record identifies the August 2019 award round.
Lebanon · 2017–2018
Personal award
Recognition Award in TV & Film
Lebanese American University
Awarded to Alex Dahdah
Alongside LAU’s Highest GPA and Community Service awards in TV & Film for the same academic year.
United States · 2022
Personal prize
Virgil Williams Prize for Outstanding Leadership
San Francisco Art Institute
Awarded to Alex Dahdah
SFAI also awarded Alex an MFA Fellowship in 2021 and the PhotoAlliance Award in 2022.
Press & conversations
In the press.
Artist-led work, commissioned photography and collaborative projects—seen through studio visits, reviews and published work.
Studio visitEditorial composite · Alex Dahdah with Perceiving Nationhood Passports.
Artist-led practice · Studio visit
MICA / Mount Royal · 2023
Inside the studio.
A studio visit with Alex, moving between print, film and the Perceiving Nationhood thesis project.
Watch conversation
ReviewOriginal film poster · Jabbara
Collaborative film · Production design
The Monthly Film Festival · 2019
Jabbara
A review of Samir Kawas’s short film considers its lead performance, enclosed theatrical space and use of color. Alex contributed production design.
Read feature
Published photographyPublished commercial cover · February 25, 2021
Commissioned photography · Commercial publication
Gulf News / GN Focus · 2021
Photography for Your Gateway to Opportunities.
Alex’s portrait photograph of Sam Bayat and Pej Mohyeddin appears on the commercial advertisement cover of the GN Focus supplement, published on February 25, 2021.
View published photograph
ArticleCollaborative design · Named contributor
961 · 2022
A language, a keyboard, a cultural project.
Coverage of Kelme’s Lebnéne keyboard and the team behind it, including Alex.
Read featureThe practice
Artist.
Collaborator.
Educator.
Alex works across film, installation, print and design, with a focus on identity, nationhood and belonging.
He teaches Art Appreciation at Richard Bland College.