When we are ill, all we want is one thing - not to be ill anymore. The filmmaker sees a swan in a duck pond and dreams with Long Covid of the realm of the healthy. An essay about enchanted sick people and dreaming birds.

Drifting through videoclips online easily leaves you distracted, lost, and back on square one. Imagine, you found a series clips organized by a sense of inchoate feeling of eclipse of time and end of the world, evoking a shared sense of fate...

I. 2014 He and she fell in love during the Umbrella Movement. The movement eventually faded, so did their relationship, just as the deep sense of helplessness throughout the city.
II. 2019 After his wife, K left, E began to drive getaway car for the young protesters, through which he started to understand K. He seemed to discover his past self and what he had missed, form those youngsters. The years following the occupy movement were filled with disappointment, until the protests broke out in 2019. Nothing could return to normal. But hopelessness was just an illusion.Through remembrance at this point, we affirm that we could emerge from the darkness, even when it seems impossible, and bring light to the current collective trauma. I hope this film could cheer up the Hongkongers.
The two independent stories seem unrelated. But by putting them together, it is just like “kind of” Kuleshov’s experiment. Arranging shots one after another creates new meanings. There are always some things that seem unrelated when viewed separately, but seem to have a context when put together.rders

An elementary school sports day gets out of hand. A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers. The collective overload shakes an entire society and unfolds into a microcosm of chaos.

"Scattered Sea" follows 17 performers spanning two generations from the MENA/Maghreb region and Europe as they trace gestures of relation across borders—within a world fractured by historical trauma, displacement, and the longing for belonging. Through a poetic language of Magical Realism, performance, and documentary, the film constructs speculative spaces for decolonial reflection and future-oriented imaginaries.
Filmed across Morocco, Malta, and Germany, the geopolitical triangle shaped by layered colonial legacies and contemporary frictions between Europe and the MENA region is reflected. Through minimal gestures and symbolic actions, the performers inscribe and unsettle space. Hybrid zones of proximity and distance unfold: ruins, gardens, and streets are roamed; symbols are traced and deconstructed; sand is scattered and shaped into ephemeral islands between continents. The search for remnants transforms into a speculative act of placing traces—daring fragile beginnings.
The work weaves together cultural memory, decolonial inquiry, and historiographic critique, offering counter-narratives that resist linear temporality and binary world orders. It opens hybrid spaces for the reimagining of social and aesthetic imaginaries attuned to plural futures.