Myriam REY is a French/Syrian London based filmmaker. I wanted to offer a space for the memories of that place to be embodied though the visual act.” M.REY The landscape intertwined with the voice-over evokes feelings of a place that is presently inaccessible due to the current tragic situation in Syria. The various forms and shapes of water helped me carve that journey visually. Here it is like a companion for that exploratory identity journey. The split screen is also a way to give shape visually to my internal journey of traveling a position of in-betweenness.Īnother ‘dispositif’ in my films is to use landscape as a character interacting with the protagonist. This dialogue between sound and image creates a liminal space where protagonist, filmmaker and viewer meet. Playing with form to experiment with a new embodied female subjectivity is an important component in my films. ![]() ![]() I recreated visually my embodied connection with water through oral testimony and a sensorial experience as an attempt to narrativize that connection. ![]() “I always struggled to belong to any land.
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