After a loud explosion on August 4, he has killed more than 200 people in Beirut and 300,000 homeless, Gaëlle Moutran did what many young people in Beirut felt obliged to do on the following days: film of what was happening around them. With its iPhone, Moutran, a production designer for film and art, documents, a town suffering from a pandemic, an economic crisis and a transitional government. “It ‘as the dust smells like desperation smells,” the 30-year-old told TIME, shows where their apartment windows had been destroyed by the explosion. The destruction was caused when 2,750 tons of unsafe stored in the warehouse exploded in a port of ammonium nitrate. Armed with an evening of violent demonstrations filled with a helmet, a tear gas mask around his neck and the phone in hand, the Moutran films as protesters Square of Beirut’s Martyrs, corruption and mismanagement chronic anzuzuprangern management of political elites . The protests began in October 2019 and deepened the political crisis after the explosion. “From the first moment, when we arrived, the energy was anger,” he says. Continue reading: Explosion in Beirut: Pictures of a city still suffering from the explosion response to this outrage, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab, the only office that will be announced in December approved the Cabinet’s resignation on Monday. That you have not subsided protests continue to clash with protesters with police in central Beirut for a third consecutive night. Moutran help walking down the streets of Beirut with recreation, and efforts to clean up, joining NGOs and volunteers work tirelessly to rebuild the city. He stops to see, sometimes, that will leave their city, including its Office therapist and some of their favorite roads. When the night goes to town, they noticed an unusual sound for a city known for its lively night life: the silence. “Beirut is always busy, but that night you could feel the emptiness. It ‘was as if someone had lit the flame of a candle.”
It smells of desperation. ‘A diary of life in Beirut after a deadly explosion
