Ode to Loneliness

A woman alone in her high-rise apartment in Doha, as day passes into night. Rawane Nassif’s stylised treatment takes us inside this person’s experiences and longings. Carefully orchestrated images compare the textures of exterior and interior worlds. Similar shapes are superimposed; colours are varied and projected onto the cityscape. The pandemic hovers as the unspoken social context. But, more deeply, is a release from the prison of the self finally possible?

 

– Adrian Martin