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KickQueen_theBody

In the imaginary realm of the KickQueens, Malak Alawye breaks time’s cyclicality when she hits an armed man in the crotch. She takes Lebanon out of its traumatic loop and into a linear dimension where progress is possible.
KickQueen (2020) is a semi-fictional, semi-factual reflection on the icon of the October 2019 uprisings in Beirut. It is a magic potion against forgetting. It asks us to remember what it means to kick an armed man in the crotch and how this gesture might live in an embodied collective.