City of Brass: The Art of Masking Reality in Digital Film

Hisham Bizri was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1966 to a family of four sisters and two brothers. His parents suffered exile early in their lives and their exilic experience had a great impression on Bizri as a young boy. The Lebanese civil war, which lasted from 1975–1992, as well as the Arab-Israeli conflicts (the naqba, naqsa and intifada), and most recently the events of the Gulf War shaped and continue to shape his actions in his exilic life in the U.S.A. and in his artistic and filmmaking practice. Bizri came to the U.S.A. in 1986 and studied filmmaking. He finances his films through his teaching and lecturing. Bizri is currently a research fellow at MIT. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), among other venues.