freedom is a habit I am trying to learn documentary film with Rogine, Hanine, Waad and ZeinaHD video 43’ 18” (colour, sound) – 2019 I spent 24 hours with each of four women – Rogin, Waad, Hanin and Zeina – in the cities where they now live, Zutphen, Washington DC, Oslo and Sharjah respctively. All […]
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بصحَّة الحلفاء – à la santé des alliés 2003- 2019 video What is at stake is small attemtps of stories written and typed, balancing between personal, family and historical facts, and that “abstractly” and most probably absurdly re-investigate the political upheavals in the time of Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Union with Syria, while I
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vrij/oui/ligers 30′ video, 2012-2014 “Vrijouiligers” is a deliberate misspelling of the word “vrijwilligers” which means in Dutch or in Flemish volunteers. Replacing the “wi” in the middle of the word by “oui” evokes the phantom of the french language in this word that originally comes from french “volontair” or from latin “voluntarius”. To volonteer is
now eat my script 24′ 50 video, 2014 “Now Eat My Script is a precipice, a fluid solution in which some spectral noises of the self float adrift. Narration takes the role of a pregnant writer who continuously affirms her hunger and clumsiness towards language and history. Her body is crossed over by both the
Dinosaurs HDV video installation with multiple screens, 2012-2014 In Dinosaurs I direct friends and family members to reenact scenes from existing or non-existing films wherein the act of drinking reveals moments of intimacy, aggression, and physiological interactions created by the “actors” who actively participate in the interpretation of each scene. Their characters live in an eternal,
A double burger and two metamorphoses: a proposal for a Dutch cat, a Dutch dog, a Dutch donkey, a Dutch goat and finally, a Dutch camel, 2011 24 minutes mini-DV video, two manipulated mechanical cuckoo clocks and wires 2011 I kept myself locked in for three days inside an empty house to force myself create
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The mute tongue video(s), 19 arabic proverbs, 20: 47′, HDV, 2010 In this work, I staged in silent vignettes 19 Arabic proverbs and sayings I use in my daily life, even if I might disapprove with their meaning, and I invited Croatian performer and artist Sinisa Labrovic who does not speak Arabic to be the
The sea is a stereo videos, collages, nivea cream jar, and other, 2007-2010 The sea is a stereo is an on-going series of reflections on a group of men who swim everyday at the beach in Beirut no matter the circumstances: rain, wind, war, etc. Even as we read this, the men might be swimming or preparing
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As if I don’t fit there 12′, mini DV video, 2006 As If I Don’t Fit Thereis a presentation about four fictional artists who decide to stop being artists and are not bothered by their decision. With silent printed text, they tell us why they quit, and what jobs they now have. Parallel to that
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Rawane’s song video, 2007 7′, 2006 Rawane’s Song is a video in which I express my refusal to talk about the war. The viewer reads my ironic discourse in which the avoided theme is finally not avoided. The video was taped in one take as I walked in artists’ studios while pointing my camera down,
