Noor Abed

The film acts as a portal to a liminal space where the dead and the living converge, exchange thoughts, and wander within an often-invisible realm. Structured around two women’s monologues, whose words sometimes meet and sometimes drift apart, the film anchors language as a site of rupture and agency. The monologue becomes an act that uses words to smuggle meaning and insists on the necessity of articulating fracture and defiance. 

The film embraces a new spatial imagination as a necessary counterforce to historical closure. The scenes alternate as if they were dreams, yet the people in the film are consciously present. It navigates the intersection of the sacred and the modern, allowing both to surface within the same temporal and spatial field, rooted in Palestine. The scenes capture everyday life, at times expanding into geometric constellations through a choreographic approach informed by sacred movement practices developed from the study of ancient cultures. These collective formations emerge as accumulations of time, linking the synchronicity of bodies to sites of mourning, centuries-old architecture, and the residual traces embedded in Palestine’s urban and social landscapes. 

The project has been commissioned by BredaPhoto and the Biennale Matter of Art in Prague, with support from the Mondriaan Fund and the Han Nefkens Foundation.