We Can Make Rain But No One Came to Ask, 2005, a fifteen-minute-long DVD, is fully situated within documentary’s framework of truthfulness, the subtle and often humorous deconstruction of which is the by now well-known art of Walid Raad. Preceding the video is wall text, laden with signs of authority, explaining the piece’s provenance as a “possible collaboration” between Yussef Bitar, “the Lebanese state’s leading ammunitions expert and chief investigator of all car bomb detonations,” and Georges Semerdjian, “a respected and fearless photojournalist and videographer who, until his violent death