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Screening & panel discussion
2023
Official Asia North 2023 festival poster

Related work · āh

Asia North

Screening and Panel Discussion

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Exhibition
2023
What do you remember from the future? — artwork reproduced in the Asia North 2023 programme

Related work · Painting Species

TRANSITION/TRANSformation/TRANScendence

Exhibition
2022
In My Space installed on a monitor in Holding Tension

Related work · It's All Connected

Holding Tension

In My Space and It’s All Connected were presented in Holding Tension. Alex’s exhibition record places It’s All Connected within The Trilogy.

Works & roles
Annual film-award nomination
2020 Annual Awards · ceremony January 2022
Festival identity · IndieX Film Fest

Related work · āh

Annual Awards nominee

IndieX Film Fest

Recognises
Work
Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Category
Not specified in the available record
Artist-reported selection
2022
2022 festival poster artwork · Mary Beagle

Related work · āh

Las Cruces International Film Festival

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Video artExhibited 2022
Selected frame of layered hands from Connected, featuring performer Trisha Gupta

Practice & context

It's All Connected

Alex Dahdah · Artist and filmmaker

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Artist-reported selection
2021
Alvsbyn Film Festival · organization logoOrganization logo

Related work · āh

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Video art2022
Alex working at a desk amid layered drawing and landscape imagery · passing the torch; already deceived?

Practice & context

passing the torch; already deceived?

Alex Dahdah · Artist

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Artist-reported selection
2021
Lift-Off Global Network · organization identityOrganization logo

Related work · āh

First-Time Filmmaker Sessions

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Artist-reported selection
2021
Global Youth Film Festival Bangladesh · organization identityOrganization logo

Related work · āh

Global Youth Film Festival

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Film award honourable mention
2021
ISAFF · organization identityOrganization logo

Related work · āh

Honorable Mention

ISAFF Saint Petersburg

Recognises
Work
Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Festival feature
2021
Karnavati International Film Festival · organization identityOrganization logo

Related work · āh

Organizer feature · āh

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Performance2020

Medium

Voice it

Alex Dahdah · Performer

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Official festival selection
2021
Lebanese Independent Film Festival 2021 official selection laurel for āh

Related work · āh

Lebanese Independent Film Festival

Official Selection

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Performance2019
Publicity artwork for the theatre performance

Medium

1975–2019

Alex Dahdah · Actor

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Artist-reported selection
2021
āh

Related work · āh

Spring Grove Caledonia Film Festival

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Performance2019

Practice & context; Medium

Mining the Gap

Alex Dahdah · Performer

View work
Film award nomination
Winter 2020 · announced January 2021
Top Indie Film Awards 2020 — Best Student Film nominee laurel for āh

Related work · āh

Best Student Film

Top Indie Film Awards

Recognises
Film / overall work
Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Film award nomination
Winter 2020 · announced January 2021
Top Indie Film Awards 2020 — Most Terrifying nominee laurel for āh

Related work · āh

Recognises
Work
Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Artist-reported selection
2021
Festival identity · Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest

Related work · āh

Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Performance2018
The Casino el-Ons stage with red curtains, singers, musicians, a poker table and a raised news desk.

Medium

Casino el-Ons

Alex Dahdah · Lighting operator

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Performance2018
Original Gender As It Could Be production poster with layered dancers against a teal background · Gender As It Could Be

Medium

Gender As It Could Be

Alex Dahdah · Lighting operator

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Artist-reported selection
2021
Official festival artwork · Watersprite, 2021

Related work · āh

Watersprite Film Festival

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Artist-reported selection
2020
Andromeda Film Festival · organization logoOrganization logo

Related work · āh

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Video art2018
Ocean waves meeting fluid imagery in the Salaam performance visuals

Practice & context

Salaam — Visuals for Dvořák’s Piano Quintet

Alex Dahdah · Co-creator of projected visuals

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Artist-reported selection
2020
Aurora Film Festival · organization identityOrganization logo

Related work · āh

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Artist-reported selection
2020
GlennFest · historical identity from Downey Arts CoalitionOrganization logo

Related work · āh

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Artist-reported selection
2020
Festival identity in the Ministry of Culture archive · Pachuca / Hidalgo Film Fest

Related work · āh

Hidalgo Film Fest

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Performance2017
A vocalist at a microphone under a warm spotlight, beside blue-lit scenery and rubble.

Medium

Alternative Facts

Alex Dahdah · Lighting operator

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Artist-reported selection
2020
Hilltop Film Festival official selection laurel for āh, 2020

Related work · āh

Hilltop Film Festival of Diversity and Inclusion

Official Selection

Artist-reported · organizer result not established in the reviewed record.

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Performance2017
Performers in black costumes on a red-lit stage with barred panels, during the Chicago adaptation at NDU. · Chicago

Medium

Chicago

Alex Dahdah · Actor · main cast

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Film award honourable mention
2020
IndieX Film Fest Award Winners, Los Angeles, September 2020

Related work · āh

Award of Excellence (Special Mention)

IndieX Film Fest

Recognises
Work
Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Film project nomination
2020
Festival identity · LIFFT India

Related work · āh

Project nomination

LIFFT

Recognises
Work
Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
Category
Not specified in the available record
Performance2017
Original Huis Clos production poster reproduced in the LAU programme · Huis Clos

Medium

Huis Clos

Alex Dahdah · Lighting operator

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Official festival selection
2020
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles official selection laurel for āh

Related work · āh

NewFilmmakers LA

Official Selection for InFocus Middle Eastern Cinema

Work
Alex’s role
Director & screenwriter
PerformanceApril 2015
Alex Dahdah, at left in camouflage and a red beret, performing with two other actors in Balle de mémoire. · Balle de Mémoire

Medium

Balle de Mémoire

Alex Dahdah · Actor · main cast

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PressArticle
2019

Related work · 1975–2019

1975–2019 on stage

LAU News

LAU covers Lina Abyad’s production, its response to war and memory, and the October 2019 protests.

Alex’s role
Actor
PressReview
2019
1975–2019

Related work · 1975–2019

A review of 1975–2019

L’Orient-Le Jour

Edgar Davidian reviews Lina Abyad’s staging and the cast’s performances. Review in French.

Alex’s role
Actor
PressInterview
2019

Related work · 1975–2019

In conversation with the cast

Elaph

A filmed interview about Lina Abyad’s 1975–2019. Interview in Arabic.

Alex’s role
Actor
Stage performance
2019-12-12
1975–2019

Related work · 1975–2019

Don’t Be Scared, Sweetheart, It’s Fireworks

Performance

Alex’s role
Actor
Stage performance
2019
Performers and audience members in Mining the Gap, under violet stage lighting

Related work · Mining the Gap

Mining the Gap · IDDFL 2019

Performed at the International Dance Day Festival in Lebanon at LAU Byblos. Directed by Jimmy Bechara, with Alex among the performers.

Alex’s role
Performer
Video art

Practice & context

Painting Species

Alex Dahdah · Artist & performer

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Video art

Practice & context

Species

Alex Dahdah · Artist & performer

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CourseworkFall 2019
Lebanese American University logo

Study record

Theater in Performance

The collaborative process of making a theatre production, including research, rehearsals, performance, design and production responsibilities.

Alex Dahdah · Coursework · Course

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Performance
The original purple Wired poster: four circular portraits linked by fine lines, with choreography and music-composition credits.

Medium

Wired

Alex Dahdah · Lighting operator

View work
CourseworkSpring 2019
Lebanese American University logo

Study record

Theories of Bodies in Performance

Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals as tools for observing, describing and developing movement in performance.

Alex Dahdah · Coursework · Course

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CourseworkSpring 2019
Lebanese American University logo

Study record

Unraveling Embodied Terrains

A performing-arts course concerned with the body and embodied performance. The surviving transcript establishes its title and Spring 2019 enrollment.

Alex Dahdah · Coursework · Course

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Stage performance
Opening announced · 10 April 2018
Casino el-Ons

Related work · Casino el-Ons

Casino el-Ons at LAU

Opening announced for April 10, 2018. Lighting credited at production level.

Alex’s role
Lighting operator
PressArticle
2018
Casino el-Ons

Related work · Casino el-Ons

A preview of the musical, its cabaret setting and collaborative approach to music and performance.

Alex’s role
Lighting operator
PressArticle
2018
Salaam — Visuals for Dvořák’s Piano Quintet

Related work · Salaam — Visuals for Dvořák’s Piano Quintet

Projected visuals for Salaam

LAU News

LAU credits Alex, Rita Choueifaty and Taline Bedikian for the visuals accompanying Dvořák’s quintet in Salaam.

Alex’s role
Co-creator of projected visuals
Stage performance
15 February 2018
Salaam — Visuals for Dvořák’s Piano Quintet

Related work · Salaam — Visuals for Dvořák’s Piano Quintet

Salaam · IMAGINE Workshop and Concert Series

Visuals for Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, co-created with Rita Choueifaty and Taline Bedikian, accompanied Seba Ali and the Apple Hill String Quartet.

Alex’s role
Co-creator of projected visuals
Stage performance
10 & 12 April 2017
Alternative Facts

Related work · Alternative Facts

Alternative Facts at LAU

Production performances: April 10 in Byblos; April 12 in Beirut. Lighting credited at production level.

Alex’s role
Lighting operator
PressArticle
2017
Alternative Facts

Related work · Alternative Facts

LAU reports on the newsroom-based performance and the collaboration behind its music, acting, dance and staging.

Alex’s role
Lighting operator
PressArticle
2017
Chicago

Related work · Chicago

Chicago at the NDU festival opening

Notre Dame University–Louaize

NDU’s report documents the Chicago adaptation performed at the opening of its 11th International Film Festival.

Project coverage · Alex is not named in this source; his role is documented separately.

Alex’s role
Actor · main cast
Stage performance
5 November 2017
Chicago

Related work · Chicago

NDU International Film Festival · opening ceremony

Chicago adaptation performed at the opening of the 11th NDU International Film Festival.

Alex’s role
Actor · main cast
PressUniversity catalogue
Year not listed
Wired

Related work · Wired

Wired in LAU CONNECTions

LAU CONNECTions

LAU’s 2017–2018 catalogue introduces Antoine Awad and Majd Al-Alam’s capstone, which follows a nerve impulse through movement and music.

Project coverage · Alex is not named in this source; his role is documented separately.

Work
Alex’s role
Lighting operator