house_no5
house_no5 is composed of phone camera footage shot in a house in Galway (Ireland) where the artist experienced severe alienation from the place. Through constructed visuals and soundscapes drawn from specific bodily movements and domestic stains, mostly found in the bedroom, the work at times borrows from unnerving horror editing techniques for a pastiche effect. […]
Derry, the Oak Grove
This essay film is a timeless journey through past archive and present footage of Derry, a small border city saturated in the remains of myths and legends of thousands of years, and how the idea of a border may in itself become a myth.
Crossing Lines
Northern Ireland in the late 1970’s, an unpredictable, fearful landscape. A place where an elevated sense of vigilance and suspicion might keep you safe, but it also amplified fear and division between communities. In this environment, where communities rarely mixed, let alone talk to each other, a group of young women let their love of […]
Connecting borders
I made this film as an attempt to deepen my understanding of border experiences. I spoke to people from different backgrounds, cultures and religions, from Ireland, Palestine, Colombia, the United States and Turkey. The interviews, conducted in the border city of Derry, where I was born and raised, and in Berlin, a city with its […]
Triang Times
Borders across the world are often contentious places where differences between people are focused and concentrated making them difficult places to live and prosper. The land border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK is one of these contentious borders. Pettigo is a small village in the Northwest of Ireland divided in half by […]
Kaanaappuram (The Unseen)
A short experimental film on trauma, memory and deterritorialization.