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Simon S Safieh

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Biography

Biography

  Like all kids, I tried to catch the ray of light coming from the sun.

Perhaps, the story begins there, or with the orange colored-toy, that looks like an 8 mm camera, which my uncle gifted me while I was just five years old, or the marine coast on my way to ancient Tartus to watch the films of its cinema club.

Damascus\fall of 2014

 Cinema, with its synthetic nature, makes me capable of turning reality into what I wish\or don’t wish it to be!

I believe that what is happening (today) makes for an extraordinary moment in history. I am possessed with the desire to record everything, for it to become a document kept by time, so it can tell next generations something about what happened. To be precise, I do not see that war is the subject of my films as much as it is the human being.

Damascus\Winter of 2020 

 in Tartouss Cinema Club, I watched, for the first time, a different kind of cinema,

in which heroes were real people who live like us, go around about their lives and are neither super heroes nor their stories are epics. A cinema that puts the daily details of these people under the light of a microscope. I felt that this cinema speaks of me, I, the teenage boy in a small town on the Mediterranean sea, who is occupied with the sea and nature. I felt that this cinema resembles me, and the club drove me to delve deeper in it on the screen and inside myself.

 Damascus\Winter of 2016

  Like all kids, I tried to catch the ray of light coming from the sun.

Perhaps, the story begins there, or with the orange colored-toy, that looks like an 8 mm camera, which my uncle gifted me while I was just five years old, or the marine coast on my way to ancient Tartus to watch the films of its cinema club.

Damascus\fall of 2014

 Cinema, with its synthetic nature, makes me capable of turning reality into what I wish\or don’t wish it to be!

I believe that what is happening (today) makes for an extraordinary moment in history. I am possessed with the desire to record everything, for it to become a document kept by time, so it can tell next generations something about what happened. To be precise, I do not see that war is the subject of my films as much as it is the human being.

Damascus\Winter of 2020 

 in Tartouss Cinema Club, I watched, for the first time, a different kind of cinema,

in which heroes were real people who live like us, go around about their lives and are neither super heroes nor their stories are epics. A cinema that puts the daily details of these people under the light of a microscope. I felt that this cinema speaks of me, I, the teenage boy in a small town on the Mediterranean sea, who is occupied with the sea and nature. I felt that this cinema resembles me, and the club drove me to delve deeper in it on the screen and inside myself.

 Damascus\Winter of 2016

My Work

My Work

Art Work
SARDINE’S TRYING TO FLY | 2019
2km of Jobar
The Tunnel “Al Nafak” | 2013
On the Laundry Rope | 2016
Divide … Conquer | 2016
Green Line | 2016
Underground, Above the Sky and Among Olive Trees | 2015.
Rwaida | 2015.
2000 watts, Light in Depth | 2015
Social Projects
Shughel Shabab
Dal Paltform
Al Masna3
Peace Lens
Poor Film

Press

Press

(The Tunnel) has transformed with displacement…from a passage to a settlement.
“on the road”…a young man films the streets of Syria for those who are “wanting”
Director Simon Safia: In “The Sardines Trying to Fly” is a documentary and fictional line in which I searched for identity in theology.
Al-Akhbar Journal: Simon Safieh…Our Life (is a can of Sardine)
Simon Safieh contemplates notions of identity and belonging
His Human in War project Director Simon Safia: I make films to communicate with people and cinema is my way to discover the world.

Support

Support

Support 19 students with disabilities, to enhance their resilience during COVID-19 lockdown and beyond through the following support packages

Basma (We Resist to Bring Back a Smile) is a national volunteer organization for children with cancer and their families. It began operating since November 2005 and case seeds started in November 2003

Contact

Contact

Contact
info@simonsafieh.com

Website Story

After COVID-19 and the changes it imposed on mankind's life style in general, many filmmakers and production companies started presenting their films on several platforms. Personally, two of my films have been shown in this manner, but, I have not found that presenting a film for a period of time on some platform is the best way for that film to have enough reach, or even for it to be seen on the internet for that matter. Therefore, I decided to create a personal platform, through which I present my films and artistic projects, and keep them available on the internet, so they could be seen by all. Also, this platform would be an open space for direct discussion with all those whom are interested. Thank you for visiting this website, and I wish you a pleasant journey inside it.