Single-channel video, 6:23 min, sound, 2011.
Interview with Raed El Rafei, Beirut based journalist and film maker.

The interview took place in the TV studios in front of the former film theatre City Palace, commonly also known as egg building.
Raed El Rafei tells about his experience in the building, used as an alternative space for night clubs after the Lebanese Civil War. He speaks of the reconstruction in downtown Beirut and the meaning carried by the egg building in the development of the city. Cinema in the 60's and 70's often refers to the modern city, such as Beirut at the time before the war.

Rafei gathers cinema and architecture as departing points for a reflection on Beirut's recent history.

Excerpt:
Raed El Rafei: The egg building symbolises for me the direction which Beirut was taking, as a city, and was abruptly interrupted by the war. [...] One of the visions that I think would make us feel at ease with our violent past is to leave something suspended in between. In other words, it means both: the purity of a structure that stands for a modern city and its marks of violence.