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Videos
Freedom of Movement
2024single-channel video with sound 23:24 min A poetry film that draws comparisons between haflat shabab (Palestinian bachelor parties), Oakland California's illegal rave scene, and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Text elements and firsthand footage enhance the immersive experience and serve as a narrative tool to elucidate the challenges and constraints of movement within a choreopoliced society. The film aims to showcase the queer, othered experience without objectification, rejecting the colonial origins of photography as a means of surveillance. The film employs abstract imagery, video collaging and representation of drug usage via colored sound waves and lumetri scopes.
Added on: July 31, 2025
Wine, lemon, egg, gasoline
single-channel video with sound 1:37 min To make one’s situation difficult is an absurd thing to do; however, it only appears so once it is self-inflicted. To make things unnecessarily difficult for others is considered natural in what is deemed the unfairness of life, dog-eat- dog world. Considering the aforementioned, it may be wise to think about the permeability of objects and subjects the same. Approaching all entities with an equal, yet inequitable procedure may only cause damage (read: absurdity).Added on: November 26, 2025
Assimilation
single-channel video with sound 2:22 min A video performance in which I conceal and spray paint my face the colors of the American flag to reference the loss of my family’s heritage and a necessity to assimilate into Western culture without complaint due to the privilege of American citizenship.Added on: November 26, 2025
Digestion
single-channel video with sound 4:59 min Part of a series of video performances where I engage with a canvas in various ways such as becoming the canvas, eating the canvas, singing to the canvas, etc. A remark on the strings of art making, the predatory apriorism of creation, and the efficacy of the tools one is provided to package oneself into a palatable format.Added on: November 26, 2025
Anhedonia
single-channel video with sound 29:25 min Anhedonia is the inability to experience joy. The film features a voiceover of the protagonist's internal dialogue who is stuck in a trancelike state. Staring at the oscillating ceiling fan serves as the method of hypnosis while the viewer is led in and out of this dissociative state accompanying the narrator's own emotional oscillation (as the fan). This author's mirroring of and kinship with theAdded on: November 26, 2025