Wafa Mustafa

Travels

This short film is one destination of many travels I have gone through in my life.

Although these travels didn't always require taking flights or leaving one place, they involved every single image and sound I have had in mind since I was born. To be able to tell this story, I had to deal with all my memories and feelings and reorganize them.

At the beginning, I aimed to explore the German Holocaust memory together with my Jewish classmates. My point of view was one of a Syrian immigrant who was given a name of a Palestinian news agency and was raised on "the Palestinian cause". This travel raised my awareness about the Holocaust with its never-concluded historical obligations. But eventually I realized that I was exploring myself and my relationship to the absence of my father who got arrested by the Syrian regime in 2013.

Great pain can't be defeated but it can be reshaped. This is the core of what I'm trying to do.

Video Installation, 2017