The Craft
Ajyal Competition
Monira Al Qadiri / Short Narrative / Kuwait, Lebanon / 2017 / 16 min / Colour / DCP
In English / Arabic subtitles
Interests: Family, Experimental
Synopsis
'The Craft' is a semi-autobiographical work of science fiction that unearths the unlikely stories lurking in the shadows of the artist’s childhood in Kuwait. Revisiting the fantasies that she and her sister embellished during these early years, they depict the culture and rituals of diplomacy by which they were then surrounded as literally otherworldly to the current rise of nationalism and political populism.
About the Directors
Monira Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. In 2010, she received a PhD in inter-media art from Tokyo University of the Arts, where her research was focused on the aesthetics of sadness in the Middle-East stemming from poetry, music, art and religious practices. Her work explores unconventional gender identities, petro-cultures and their possible futures, as well as the legacies of corruption.
Credits
- Director
- Monira Al Qadiri
- Editor
- Vartan Avakian
- Music
- Fatima Al Qadiri