a month of now (2023)


16mm to digital - 7min


(pw: belmont)

an omnipresent AI observes a filmmaker observing her surroundings, 75 years after Palestine is still occupied.

Inspired by 
Hostage: The Bachar Tapes, Tape #17 by Walid Raad
https://www.vdb.org/titles/hostage-bachar-tapes-english-version
as a part of the Radical Closure program curated by Akram Zaatari

Filmed and recorded on
the ancestral land and unceded territory of the Potawatomi, Odawa, and Ojibwe People, in which Chicago settles on.

special thanks

leila awadallah and our voice note exchanges
john grzinich / radio aporee
belmont station, chicago
christina c. nguyen + docmedia @ northwestern university
millennials are killing capitalism & 
excerpt from /Fred Moten on Palestine & the Nation-State of Israel/