In his exquisite trilogy, The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs, Walid Raad constructs complex, inexplicable versions of history that recall Jorge Luis Borges's fantastic narrations. The Lebanese civil wars (1975-1991) and their aftermath are analyzed via cryptic signs and chance events; bizarre situations are imagined, yet are constructed from everyday material. The act of documenting is linked to oppressive systems but it is uncertain whether there was any sense behind the accumulation of images and information. Raad has described his project as "hysterical symptom"; "the tapes do not document what happened, but what can be imagined, what can be said, what can be taken for granted, what can appear as rational, sayable, and thinkable about the wars." Akram Zaatari's All Is Well on the Border focuses on the occupied zone in southern Lebanon; it too is concerned with the impossibility of representing conflict. Personal remembrances and TV footage chronicle systematic oppression. Lebanese men imprisoned in Israeli jails relate their stories of captivity; the stories they tell may or may not be their own, but if the truth is not related, a truth is revealed. In Zaatari's Crazy of You, young men talk frankly of their attitudes toward women. The film is controversial in Lebanon, where it is still taboo to speak in such ways about sexuality.-Kathy Geritz