Film

Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue)

2017 · 18m

‘To remember, sometimes you need other archaeological tools,’ says the voice over in Hiwa K’s Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue). The video depicts the artist walking across fields, wastelands, estates, going from Turkey to Athens and then to Rome, a path that mirrors his own journey as a child, when he fled Iraqi Kurdistan and reached Europe by foot. His “Pre-images” are fragments of a path whose final destination is uncertain. Commissioned by Documenta 14.

• Hiwa KDirector · Writer
• Abbas NokhastehProducer
• Steffen MartinEditor

Release date

January 1, 2017

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

18m