Linceul (2017)
" [...] Entre la performance et l’essai cinématographique, Linceul nous plonge dans un espace sensuel où les canons de la beauté classique sont remis en question. Des corps tracent des mouvements impossibles dans une bulle intemporelle, où il est question de chair, de poésie, de peau. Une réponse, peut-être, aux conflits qui se tiennent à l’extérieur de ce microcosme charnel désigné par le film. Dehors, un nouveau califat est bâti. La frontière qui sépare l’intérieur de l’extérieur est ici une blessure perpétuelle et inguérissable."
Elena López Riera
Poster by Zeina Bassil
Cortex (2018)
"This is a cinematic essay tackling the nude, the sequel to "Linceul" presented in Visions du Réel in 2018. Three years after the first one, some of the characters are reunited again in the filmmaker's house for another exploration of their physical intimacy. Three nude men are killing time sitting on the floor measuring their penises when they get mail, a huge box containing a woman. Her arrival will unlock various fantasies within the three characters. She embarks on a mythical love story with one of them that echoes with the creation of Life and reflects upon grief with the other as his father dies during the shooting of the film. She manages to get her revealed message across and initiates the filmmaker into a new understanding beyond the pain."
Poster by Zeina Bassil