grajo͝oˈāSHən film
No One's Sister takes place in the space between the concrete and the imaginary. It plays with poetry and a painterly visual language in which a brother dreams of his sister whom he has never met.
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I would like to tell you about my sister. I don't know if she is real.
My graduation film No One's Sister is my first attempt to tell a big story. It is very personal to me, because I open a little door into my head and let the viewer in for just a moment.
Often, people ask me where I'm from, I usually say; I come from ......... which is a small farm town. I don't usually mention that my father fled, just like my grandfather from .........
Nevertheless, I believe that my family history has shaped me, and through my film, I am searching for new ways to speak about uprooting and belonging.
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In the scene where a cheesecake is in the oven, a recipe and a violent history are intertwined in the voice-over. Ingredients are mixed and chopped, and at the same time, you hear about a bomb that drove my father and grandfather away. I think of trauma as something domestic like baking a cake. Much violence takes place in a person's mind, as a memory or story, while you cheerfully sit next to each other on the couch.
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ˌpərsnˈel ˈinfō
n.m.saliou.a@gmail.com
njaay_mame_saliou_assile
https://www.instagram.com/njaay_mame_saliou_assile/
həˈlōɡo͝odˈbī
https://www.youtube.com/@user-tc3qh2my9r
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ˈəT͟Hər wərk
Stedelijk Museum Uncut 2000 20 4
Are they nice, or are they stupid?
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I collected 50 printers from Marktplaats. Then I sold my camera to a man on Marktplaats. Later, the man came back to take pictures of my printers with my camera.
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Stedelijk Museum Uncut 2000 20 2
Where the Wind Goes
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