She started out making documentaries while studying anthropology at University College London and won the Inspiration award in 2015 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council Film Awards for her first short film “This Island’s mine”. 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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