Knooz Room

20/05/2016

A year after SHELTER, Knooz Room's newest immersive project (still very much in development) has been accepted at Sheffield Doc Fest's Alternate Realities Market. Looking forward to keeping you posted with more about this co-production with the UK's Red Thread Media.

Sheffield Doc/Fest are pleased to announce 25 projects selected for the 2016 Alternate Realities Market. Chosen from 12 different countries, they will be pitching in Alternate Realities meetings on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 June as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest. // Mexico // Venado Films // Pr...

12/11/2015

Check out our latest digital interactive series with Mashallah News. This time it's about the invisible layer of our region that comes out in the NIGHT. Many thanks to David Habchy, Art Director and to the team of coders from Web Miscellaneous.

The night has a special kind of intimacy. A slower pace, a sense that time is moving in other directions. Places turn unfamiliar in the dark; people look different, do things differently. It’s a time when things are allowed to disappear and become invisible – or to emerge from hiding, celebrate an o…

28/10/2015

Photos of the Mashallah News & Knooz Room NIGHT event last week, featuring three fantastic photojournalists from Libya, Turkey and Lebanon: Naziha Arebi, Caglar Kanzki and Alia Haju.

Many thanks to the extremely helpful Onomotopaiea team and all who came out to take part!

Photos courtesy of the fantastic Patrick Abi Salloum (Pat Sy)

The event was done with the support of CFImedias

06/08/2015

Have you seen our ROUTES series with Mashallah News? Here it is in full (8 parts).

What alternative Middle Easts have existed, are existing and, perhaps one day, could exist within and beyond differently imagined borders?

22/06/2015

Please join or share this great initiative by our friends at FRAME:

FIRST EVER Collective Photo Action on the streets of BEIRUT! This Collective Photo Action is all about public space, transportation and mobility, and privatization of Beirut's coastline.

FIRST EVER Collective Photo Action on the streets of BEIRUT! Join FRAME in partnership with NAHNOO, Train Train, and Public Works to take to the streets and document public life! This Collective Photo Action is all about public space, transportation and mobility, and privatization of Beirut's coastl…

18/06/2015

ROUTES entry number 5, this time written by KnoozRoom's Tamara Qiblawi. It's about the beloved jewel that is the city of Sour (Tyre), and its nautical wonderland, which ebbs and flows with the political ruptures of the region.

Tyre's nautical wonderland has ebbed and flowed throughout its centuries-long history. This is a story about its contemporary fishermen and how the Israeli occupation interrupted their seafaring ways, often rerouting them towards deadly results.

12/06/2015

"An unmissable way of 'getting there' for passengers, and a means of making (some sort of) a living for drivers. An exhilarating experience - exhausting chaos."

The latest release in our collaboration with Mashallah News, from the ROUTES series.

A ride along the erratic route of Beirut's Bus no. 4 reveals Lebanon's untended wounds.

03/06/2015

We're at Beirut Design Week! Check out our looping video from our immersive experience "Shelter' at the Based in Beirut Exhibition (Beirut Souks), in the Disrupt! Design! corner.

27/05/2015

A new Mashallah News-Knooz Room collaborative series on Language. Send your pitches!
"This series takes as its starting point a view of the Middle East as a site of intersection, change, and invention of novel forms and uses of language. We understand language in both the mundane sense of the various spoken tongues that overlap in the Middle East as well as the more broad sense of forms of communication which seek to translate ideas into symbols through which we understand the world."

For our third themed series, Mashallah in collaboration with Knooz Room are looking for stories from across the Middle East on the topic of language.

26/05/2015

Our first transmedia, immersive storytelling experience reviewed by The Daily Star:

"We shuffled down a flight of shallow stairs, squeezed past the sandbags piled to either side of the heavy metal doors, and filed into the darkness of the basement bomb shelter. Families, friends and strangers sat close together in a semicircle in the dimly lit room, with peeling white walls. When the heavy doors slammed shut with a crash, everybody jumped. Stifled gasps broke an uneasy silence. In a dingy shelter close to Burj al-Murr, beneath the furniture showroom Art on Spears, a mismatched crowd of old and young, local and foreign observers sat down to watch “Shelter,” a documentary by digital storytelling platform Knooz Room."

We shuffled down a flight of shallow stairs, squeezed past the sandbags piled to either side of the heavy metal doors, and filed into the darkness of the basement bomb shelter.

21/05/2015

Parking? Do please give yourself plenty of time to sort out your parking before the event. You can either try and find spaces along Spears Street or, instead, follow our beautiful (albeit rough-and-ready!) map to an allocated parking bay.

Tickets are FREE, yet capacity is extremely limited (20 viewers per screening). Choose your session and book your tickets now by clicking on the link below.

malja2.com/register

14/05/2015

Tips on how to travel to Tahiti from the comfort of your shelter. Read books, preferably romance novels.

سيدتي ،نصائح حول كيفية السفر إلى تاهيتي و أنت مرتاحة في ملجأك.
تمعني في قراءة الكتب.عدداً هائلاً من الكتب.

Be sure to book your immersive session here: malja2.com/register
Tickets are FREE, yet capacity is extremely limited (20 viewers per screening)

يمكنكم حجز جلستكم في الموقع التالي
malja2.com/register