Alaa Mansour is an artist, filmmaker, and archivist based between Beirut and Marseille. Her work examines the histories of violence and examines modes of power and regimes of images within the scope of necropolitics. Using a multidisciplinary approach she explores concepts of the sacred and the sublime and their potential of horror. She graduated from Université Paris 8 with a Masters in Arts & Creation – Filmmaking (2013). Her films Aïnata (2018) and The Mad Man’s Laughter (2021) have been screened internationally (Visions du Réel, Transmediale, European Media Art Festival, Impakt, Videonale). She also participates in and contributes to research activities and the creation of published works.