LETTERS TO A REFUSING PILOT. VISUAL ARTS
In the summer of 1982, at the beginning of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, an Israeli Air Force pilot was ordered to bomb a structure on the edge of the Ain El-Helweh refugee camp in the southern city of Saida. The pilot saw from the cockpit that the target could only have been a school or a hospital and refused the order. He cut off communication with officers on the ground and dropped his explosives into the sea. Word of this 'refusing pilot' spread throughout Lebanon and became an urban legend; an unbelievable tale of an Israeli Jew allegedly from Saida, who refused to bomb the Public School for Boys he was said to have attended as a child.
Venice Biennial, 2015
Year
Client
2013
AKRAM ZAATARI
Service
Creative Direction
Art Direction
Design and Illustration
2D Animation
Creative studio
The Council
Production team
Producer: Nadim Shartouny
Creative direction: Ali Kays
VFX supervisor: Sebastien Riavec
Concept art: Ali Kays
3D modeling: Sebastien Riavec, Ali Kays
Compositing: Nadim Shartouny, Sebastien Riavec
Animation: Nadim Shartouny, Sebastien Riavec, Ali Kays