Their works create thematic and formal links between photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture, and cinema, being documentary or fiction film. They have received awards in the most important international film festivals throughout the years and have been awarded the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2017 for their art project Unconformities. Their long-term research is based on personal or political documents, traces of the invisible and the absent, histories kept secret and archaeological undergrounds of cities.

Hadjithomas and Joreige were both born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1969 and currently live and work between Beirut and Paris.