About the work
More than normal (Plus que normal) shows the story of three couples that ends in a separation. There is almost no dialogue and no action, at a time when an unstable equilibrium leads to a tense atmosphere. Keywords for this video would be: desire, charm, wish, love, fear, hopes, anger and separation.
KeywordsVideo. Relation. Communication. Separation.
Screened at
- 2020 - 1st International Film Festival Bosnia Herzegovina Looks Around, Paris, France
- 2014 - dokumentART, Poland
- 2009 - [Since Art], microARTos, Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain →
- 2005 - Goethe-Institut, Beirut, Lebanon
- 2004 - 1er festival télé-jeunes en francophonie, at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, Canada
- 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, Le Batofar, Paris, France
- 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, Cinema Black Box, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
- 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, at the European Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey
- 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, at the European Film Festival, Bursa, Turkey
- 2004 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, at the European Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey
- 2004 - INGAN II, Berlin, Germany
- 2003 - Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris, Cinema Balzac, Paris, France
- 2002 - L'art c'est secondaire, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
In the press
- Jun 2002Lebanese presence at the Paris exhibition “Art Is Secondary”: two films by Ricardo Mbarak dealing with relationshipsAl Nahar · Newspaper
- Dec 2007Ricardo Mbarkho: “You must live your work and not just contemplate it”iLoubnan · Online magazine · Diana Kahil
- Oct 2010Artist’s portrait: Ricardo MbarkhoTurbulences Vidéo · Online magazine · Gabriel Soucheyre, Evelyne Rogue, Dieter Wieczorek, Fred Forest