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A meditation on the changing role of women in the Gulf region, which casts woman as the elemental connection between life and death, Earth and the stars, past and future.
‘That Which Is Coming’ is an experimental video installation shot with a Phantom camera. It explores the elemental power of female movement. Like a rain dance created to end a drought, the film is a calling for the future. I hope to inspire the courage inspired by witnessing or performing the traditional Haka war cry. The project is a moving triptych of bodies in movement.

Credits

Director
Sophia Al-Maria
Screenwriter
Sophia Al-Maria
Producer
Sophia Al-Maria

About the Director

Sophia Al-Maria
Sophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American writer and artist. Her first book, ‘The Girl Who Fell to Earth’, was released in late 2012, and her art has been shown around the world, at the New Museum in New York City, the Contemporary Art Museum in Kitakishyu, Japan, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. She made her Biennale debut at Gwanju in South Korea with ‘Scout’. Curre