Barzakh (2025)
Single channel video installation, (16mm transferred to digital, iPhone footage and digital camcorder) colour, sound. 10min 51sec.
Barzakh (2025) moves through a city suspended between presence and absence, memory and forgetting, desire and dread, tracing how states of liminality and displacement exist as both a structural condition and an emotional reality. An Arabic and Persian word meaning “separation” or “barrier,” ‘barzakh’ refers to a liminal state between life and death — a veil between the dead and their return to the world of the living.
Shot across 16mm film, digital camcorder and iPhone footage, the film shifts between analogue and digital imagery, exploring the haunted contours of longing and dislocation. Spaces flicker, thresholds multiply, and bodies move like apparitions through a city that never fully reveals itself: what emerges is neither dream nor document, but a realm where perception falters.
Single channel video installation, (16mm transferred to digital, iPhone footage and digital camcorder) colour, sound. 10min 51sec.
Barzakh (2025) moves through a city suspended between presence and absence, memory and forgetting, desire and dread, tracing how states of liminality and displacement exist as both a structural condition and an emotional reality. An Arabic and Persian word meaning “separation” or “barrier,” ‘barzakh’ refers to a liminal state between life and death — a veil between the dead and their return to the world of the living.
Shot across 16mm film, digital camcorder and iPhone footage, the film shifts between analogue and digital imagery, exploring the haunted contours of longing and dislocation. Spaces flicker, thresholds multiply, and bodies move like apparitions through a city that never fully reveals itself: what emerges is neither dream nor document, but a realm where perception falters.
Barzakh (2025) | MA Artist’s Film & Moving Image Degree Show | Laurie Grove Baths, Goldsmiths.
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