(RE)CONSTRUCTING THE PAST.

A few stills from my upcoming short film.

The scene depicts (reconstructs) a confrontation between our central protagonist, Wedad, and her parents about the impasse they find themselves in, living together, on top of each other.

It is hopefully a scene in which you find yourself empathising with each of the characters.

As I enter into the edit, it feels very much like I am performing an autopsy on my own familial autobiographical memory narrative, as scenes are moved around on the timeline, and painful decisions are made to excise or snip certain shots.

It is a story that preceded my coming into this world and yet its significance has rippled through time, impacting lives in direct ways, to the present day.

Here I am, more than 50 years after that dinner happened, representing it on film, as a way of making the incoherent past somehow coherent, as a tool to explore internal realities and truth, to hopefully move towards healing and reconciling transgenerational trauma.

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