with Lidia Chaib and the Yara Khalil reading of Ghayath Almadhoun poem subtitles and additional camera Marty Hiatt
sound mix Mauricio Fleury
The film reflects on different types of liberation and especially on women’s bodies dealing with patriarchal power dynamics, while, in a personal cartography, traces my Arab roots. The video was motivated by a dish. A recipe that my grandmother ended up not giving to me before she passed away, which came back to me recently through the hands of a Palestinian/Syrian poet.
