Bassam Issa Al-Sabah

Bassam Issa Al-Sabah

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Uncensored Lilac 2024

A group of goddesses and their assembly of familiars, pets, servants, and technologies are lounging. Separated from one another, they share a land but not a common ground. They have been invaded. They are pretty, hot, bothered, and bored. They are ready to destroy each other. They look deep into the camera and recite their deepest wishes, hopes, dreams, and fantasies. Meanwhile, temperatures are rising. They morph and grow and make their rage known. Quick to anger, their tempers rise with the heat.
Bassam Al-Sabah

Bassam Al-Sabah

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Fenced within the silent cold walls 2021

The CGI film featuring a recreation of my former home in Iraq, which my family cannot return to. As the film moves through the house, digital images begin to escape from the forgotten TV and computer screens and materialise into living forms. These forces surge out in utter destruction, invading the domestic realm without restraint. We then hear a narration in Arabic from my grandmother where she describes the burning of sentimental objects in the home before fleeing, and digital fabrications of these objects appear before disintegrating.
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I AM ERROR 2021

This 30 minute animation first installed at Gasworks (London) 2021, projected onto a curved screen, features a collection of cinematic sequences from an imaginary game in which the hero's body is constantly in flux, undergoing metamorphoses as a result of his encounter with other lifeforms, whose physical touch makes him vunlerable to change, threatening his identity and selfhood.
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Dissolving Beyond the Worm Moon 2018

The film was produced in relation to war, unrealized childhood fantasies and representation of war and violence within globalized media. The film imagines the traumatised body as a functioning time machine where gaps between timelines and anomalies cause the present-day body to disappear and is replaced by the body’s memory of past trauma. The film weaves a narrative from mental time travel, episodic future thinking (a projection of the self into the future to pre-experience an event) and PTSD.