Through semi-fictional storytelling, This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own sheds light on the interlinked nature of economic growth and environmental decay entrenched in social and ecological injustice. The film addresses various forms of extraction and violence inflicted on both human and nonhuman bodies, as well as the ecosystem along the shorelines of Beirut, the city’s port, and around the old quarantine zone—a dumping ground for the unwanted, things and bodies alike.

Panos Aprahamian writes, teaches, and works with film and video. His practice explores the spectral presence of the past and the future in human and nonhuman bodies, sacrificial landscapes, cultural practices, and social relations. He was a fellow of the Home Workspace Program in 2018 and the Middle East Media Initiative in 2020. Between 2019 and 2021, he was an instructor at the American University of Beirut in the Fine Arts Department and the Media Studies Program.