popg clanc is a WhatsApp group created by online gamers in early 2019. From personal footage to news headlines, media shared in the group are overlaid on their recorded gaming to create this film as the members of popg clanc navigate the events of the 2019 popular uprisings in Lebanon and the ensuing financial, economic, and infrastructural collapse of the country amid a global pandemic. Their archived chat unfolds as if in real-time with an associative montage between moments of joy and fear, collectivity and isolation, protest and violence to demonstrate that such parallels of progress rarely exist without intersecting, but rather it is their enmeshing that allows for a continuity of collective existence. In this short film, Monica Basbous and Charbel Alkhoury offer an insight into the inner mechanisms of the group at work as it shapeshifted into a revolutionary cell, a grassroots neighborhood group, an information sharing and verification system, a mutual aid network, and a support system depending on the times.

popg clanc is: [M00nz, Anxiety Attack, P00pie, Lastuadri, Jfara7, Leil88, Shaikha0123, Moudira2aldir, Feiruzwbass, Metweleh07, Lynnnnyl, ZaThug, Gabzoy, IchliebePopo, Rips88, Melm0, W84godo]