“For Example: The Chinese of Lebanon” a film by Nina Diwan & Oscar Mooney
About This Event
At the Knitting Factory, Nina Diwan and Oscar Mooney present For Example: The Chinese of Lebanon, a hybrid film-and-performance project. Both artists work between rock/pop performance and documentary forms, treating sound and image as parallel sources of narration; their practice emphasizes clear delivery, pacing and questions of authorship rather than spectacle. The lineup is Diwan and Mooney in collaboration on-screen and onstage.
About For Example: The Chinese of Lebanon
At the Knitting Factory, Nina Diwan and Oscar Mooney present *For Example: The Chinese of Lebanon*, a film that traces a little-documented community shaped by migration, trade, and shifting ideas of belonging. Screened in a live setting alongside performances by Diwan and Mooney, the work sits between documentary inquiry and Rock/Pop stage practice. In New York, where diasporas often overlap without being legible to each other, the film reads as a small corrective to the city’s usual cultural map. It observes identity as something negotiated in public, not inherited whole.
About the Artists
Nina Diwan
Nina Diwan is a Rock/Pop artist whose work in New York City has appeared at the Knitting Factory, where she brings a songwriter’s economy to the stage. She has also collaborated with Oscar Mooney, including the film project “For Example: The Chinese of Lebanon,” credited to Diwan and Mooney.
Oscar Mooney
Oscar Mooney is a rock/pop artist based in New York City’s live-performance circuit, appearing at venues such as the Knitting Factory. He has collaborated with filmmaker and artist Nina Diwan, including the hybrid screening-and-performance project “For Example: The Chinese of Lebanon,” credited to Diwan and Mooney.
“For Example: The Chinese of Lebanon” a film by Nina Diwan & Oscar Mooney
“For Example: The Chinese of Lebanon,” a film by Nina Diwan and Oscar Mooney, is presented in a Rock/Pop context at New York City’s Knitting Factory. Diwan and Mooney bring their collaborative practice to the stage, drawing on the pacing and framing of documentary work as much as performance.