Two lovers are shot in time-lapse, capturing an unexpectedly sensual drama. Caught somewhere between living and dying, the figures decay rhythmically, until all moisture is gone and their movements subside. The absurdity of fruit peel as a human metaphor brings two realities together: the physicality of the material world meets the equal force of the inner world of desire, emotion, love, intimacy, and death and decay. I Without End, the third chapter in a cycle of five animations, is part of an ongoing experiment in combining the mediums of drawing, magnification of time and space, process and cinema. Each episode is structured around a primal element--earth, air, water, fire, and space. I Without End takes fire as its inspiration, both as a energetic force and an emotional and psychological metaphor.
Water Panics in the Sea, is the fourth in a series of short films based on the five elements of Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Ether. Constructed through a process of iterative magnification and manipulation of minute details derived from mono-type prints and drawings, the film seeks to question our habituated perception by an intricate use of scale, distance, time and space. Reflecting on human themes of generational trauma and memory, the film follows the odyssey voyage of a ghost ship as it traverses the ocean waters through an accelerated, indistinct chronology, underscoring the seemingly infinitesimal, the absurd, and the epic. Soundtrack performed and composed by Shahzad Ismaily.