Walid Raad 

The Atlas Group

Hostage:
The Bachar Tapes
Video, 16 minutes, 2001

Hostage: The Bachar Tapes is an experimental documentary. It tells the story of Souheil Bachar, whose testimony deals with Western hostages kidnapped in Beirut in the '80s. The author of the work, who as it happens doesn't exist in reality, was given to imagining himself as the sixth and only Arab hostage.