Personal Projects

Through the lens of the camera, Sana tells her story, relating the past that haunts her. She recounts fragments of the 24 hours she decided to leave the house in which her father has stolen her childhood and innocence, fragments where she used to escape through fairytales, fragments, finally, where she leaves for real. You can watch the trailer here.

In front of the lens of a camera, a person could be as nervous as in front of the barrel of a gun. Intrigued by how much the camera and the gun intersect since their invention, I try to illustrate that in this short experimental.

This thesis is a film-based research video demonstrating how the fantasy, as a space, as aesthetics and narrative, plays a role in children in conflict zones. The children are sent away from their home, family and familiar environment in order to be safe. The problem is: they do not feel safe. And so, this magical non-space appears for them full of magical creatures, where they can manipulate time and death. But the children soon discover that fantasy has obstacles as well, challenges and monsters. Fantasy will soon mirror reality bringing the children back to it.