Filmed from Berlin, the film opens with aerial views of Gaza, its architecture stripped to the bone. A cold and distant voice introduces a game invented by an anonymous collective to combat boredom: measuring distances, first between objects, then between cities hosting peace conferences. Little by little, the narration slips toward the "virgin forest," a terrain that remains free of any human footprint, intertwined with images of the threatened ecology of Gaza. Inspired by Western situationist and psycho-geographic cinema, the project questions the colonial legacy through borders, memory, and abstract cartographies. 

 We Began by Measuring Distance, awarded at the Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009)