CARINE DOUMIT










BIOGRAPHY










My practice combines montage and writing. I edit and write films. I write short essays. I make books and videos. I collaborate on installations, exhibitions and performances. I give workshops and artistic consultations. 


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CONTACT
carindoumit@gmail.com
comite.filcamelia@gmail.com
Leb: +96171742791   
Fr: +3362448855














UPCOMING



July 2026
Residency at Medrar Center in Cairo for Elegy of a Disappearance
October 2026
Premiere of Elegy of a Disappearance at festival Chroniques (Marseille), a stage performance based on a sound dramaturgy by the trio Kinda Hassan, Racha Baroud and Carine Doumit, in collaboration with Christian Sebille


PREVIOUS


June 8, 2026
Premiere of we return to the fog, 15’
The video is part of a two-channel installation which will open for the exhibition in the guise of the commonplace commissioned by Market Gallery under The Camelia Committee for Glasgow International Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art


April / September 2026
Residency at Facteur de ciel (Grasse, France)
May 2026
Residency at GMEM in Marseille with Kinda Hassan, Racha Baroud and Christian Sebille
December 2026
Editing workshop for researchers working on film projects at Maison Méditerannéenne des Sciences Humaines, Aix-en-Provence, France
September 2025Residency at Mophradat, Athens
Working on Fulgor or the book of children project


February + May 2026Composing with Fragments, an online workshop in collaboration with literary journal Rusted Radishes as part of the series “Transgenerations: Writing Histories of the Present”
February 2025Residency at The Bogliasco Center, Italy 
Working on Fulgor or the book of children project

December 2024Residency at Macdowell with Sofía Velázquez
Working on solas y juntas project

September 2024
Residency at Providenza with Mira Adoumier to work on the script of the feature film Come Nightfall
Presenting one sea, three seas, a live performance by The Camelia Committee (Mira Adoumier, Carine Doumit & Nour Ouayda) at Shhhhhh, a film festival that declares its love for silent film and the sea, organized by the programming collective Monokino, Ostend, Belgium



PROJECTS







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we return to the fog


a video by Carine Doumit | 15’ | 2026text by Carine Doumit with fragments adapted from Haytham El Wardany, Emile Habibi & Anne Carson
images by Carine Doumit, Sofía Velázquez, Ghassan Salhab, Mira Adoumier, Liwaa Yazji
sounds by Tatiana El Dahdah, Eirik Havnes, Victor Bresse
voices  Carine Doumit, Sofía Velázquez, Liwaa Yazji, Dunya Halwani
sound design by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh 
additional music from Luigi Nono (Io, Frammento Da Prometeo)
additional compositions by Kinda Hassan
coloring by Chrysel Elias
titles and captions by Daniel Hughes
This work is part of a two-channel installation in collaboration with Mira Adoumier and commissioned by Market Gallery 
for Glasgow International Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art

In this fable, the creatures do not simply speak - they borrow words spoken by others before them. They’ve come a long way, and a few of them have devised schemes to resurface, against all odds. They tell us fragments of their journey to vanquish the fear molded in their bodies.   






Elegy of a Disappearance


a project by the trio Kinda Hassan, Racha Baroud & Carine Doumit
in collaboration with Christian Sebille - GMEM
will be opening at the festival Chroniques in Marseille in October 2026

Elegy of a Disappearance is a stage performance based on a sound composition, namely an augmented Hörspeil. The performative, visual and scenic elements are reared around the sound material, which holds the leading role and explores the question of disappearance within the geographical context of the Mediterranean, both in terms of bodies and territories.







solas y juntas


a conversation between Carine Doumit and Sofía Velázquez  |  ongoing since 2021


solas y juntas is an ongoing conversation about childhood, war and poetry, traveling back and forth between Lebanon and Peru, between fantasy and the real world. It is based on a constellation of letters which translate into film, video works, short stories, and other potential creative forms.    







Fulgor or the book of children


in development since 2021
with contributions by Daniel Kupferberg, Amel Alzaout, Liwaa Yazji,  Sofía Velázquez, among others


Fulgor or the book of children is a publication centered around children and war: a constellation of children’s stories, poems, essays, conversations and drawings, the project is developed in collaboration with writers, researchers and artists.


A first iteration of this project is The Story of Mir short story.






The Story of Mir


short story | written in English and Arabic | 2024 
with illustrations by young Yuna Alzaout and non-visual artist Daniel Kupferberg
published in 2024 for the exhibition Manifestations; and The Voyage, curated by Hussein Nakhal and produced by Waraq 
Tabaan!2024 - Beirut


The Story of Mir
[The Monster that Became Dragon] is part of Fulgor or the book of children project.
It is a story about a girl called Mir, who once lived on the 
island of Kalimantan where she had visions of a large 
green monster, until she found a lizard she brought back to her hometown in Mount Lebanon, a lizard that grew up to become a dragon…





Cover illustration by Daniel Kupferberg






With a drawing by young Yuna Alzakout



The Camelia Committee
مجموعة في الكاميليا

Created in 2020  | Mira Adoumier, Carine Doumit, Nour Ouayda  

The Camelia Committee
[مجموعة في الكاميليا] came together in March of 2020 in Beirut. Named after the experimental TV series by filmmaker Mohamad Soueid انا في الكاميليا, the group develops ways in which image, text, sound and voice come together in various mediums and forms. Mira Adoumier (filmmaker, visual artist and researcher), Carine Doumit (film editor, writer and researcher) and Nour Ouayda (filmmaker and film programmer) have worked together on a series of conversations around collective work, the collective exhibition At the Edge of the Forest, a Garden, and the collective performance one sea, three seas. They continue to collaborate on films, video installations and film programs, among other projects.




From the live performance one sea, three seas premiere at Ostend in Belgium (2024)




From the collective exhibition At the Edge of the Forest,
a Garden
at the Beirut Art Center (2021)


Les épargnés / The Spared Ones


short story | written in French with English adaptation, with poems in Arabic by Liwaa Yazji | 2014
published by Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts in Beirut 
as part of the HomeWorks VII; A Forum on Cultural Practices


Translating gestures of montage, this publication weaves different literary forms (prose, poetry, script), introducing images, footnotes and quotation as elements of the narration, and weaving multiple voices and storylines. The short story evokes strange encounters made in Beirut around the year 2013: a fearless pathologist called L., an ageless child called N., a couple of inseparable stray dogs, and a woman-insect.