1. In production

Black and white image with a silhouette of a person standing against a larger illustration of and older man’s face.

Description

Adumbration is a formal and narrative exploration at the intersection of experimental cinema, cosmic horror -which evokes existential dread and the incomprehensible-, and visual essay. Developed during a residency at Main Film with support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), the project continues my artistic research into memory, unstable imagery, and temporal disruption.

Set in Beirut, the film follows a moviola (an analog film editing machine used to view and edit film by physically running the film through the device) , a survivor of a 1989 civil war explosion, as it attempts to rewind time to understand its own destruction. Through archival footage, analog glitches, and Lovecraftian invocations (references to the literary and aesthetic style of H.P. Lovecraft, characterized by the presence of incomprehensible, ancient, and otherworldly forces, existential dread, human insignificance, and the fear of the unknown), the film investigates memory, trauma, and the survival of images.