The dickinsonia is a 550-million-year-old sea organism whose soft body has left very few fossils. The rare traces of its existence have left the scientific community doubtful. Similarly to this old life form, our oldest memories, blurry and unclassified at the depth of our minds, only seem to leave vague impressions. These… ⊕

Emily DiCarlo’s three-channel video installation The Propagation of Uncertainty (2020) explores the friction that occurs between what she terms “the infrastructure of time with the intimacy of duration.” The work focuses on time frequency standards and how our accelerated, networked world relies on the… ⊕

This video is broken down into 3 chapters: Le Slow (slow dance), Le vent (the wind) and La barrière (the barrier). The central theme of loss in this performative work is portrayed through the attempt to hold onto breakable or intangible things. In the vast surrounding landscape, the actions are juxtaposed to the strong… ⊕

A collage of personal and public accounts, The Image Remains the Same contemplates water as an allegory of journeys filled with desire, belonging, hope, and demise stretching from the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles to the Mediterranean Sea in Lebanon, specifically the El-Mina port, where Ali El-Darsa speaks to… ⊕

Sometimes, escapism can become the very thing you're running from. You Suffer (2021) is a short pseudo-psychological experimental film indulging both my angst and my most nerdy desires. Going back to a middle-school method, I chronicle my semi descent into madness through machinima as I muse over my escapist obsession with the… ⊕