Experimental film | Egypt 2025 | 7'40 English – English subtitles

Female identity is not static, but a fluid and continuously evolving experience-like a landscape shaped by time, memory, and environment. Just like the desert around her—dry, vast, exposed to wind and erosion-her presence becomes at once fleeting and enduring, constantly forming and transforming.

This landscape of becoming rejects limitations and resonates with a feminist impulse that dismantles rigid definitions while embracing multiplicity, ambiguity, and transformation. A black-and-white dance film unfolds as a sensual, cinematic ritual of femininity. In a poetic excavation of memory, resilience, and the body, the woman connects with the untamed force of nature. Set against the dry Egyptian desert horizon, where the line of the sky stretches into boundlessness, the film moves between moments of stillness and eruption, surrender  and resistance. Inspired by the powerful poetic language of Adrienne Rich (Diving into the Wreck), this experimental video-poem explores what it means to live in a female body, shaped by silence and survival.

Co-creation with Salma Salem

Camera and Edit Michael Maurissens

Performance Salma Salem
Text and Voice Adrienne Rich

Official Selection
IMMAGI]NA Film Festival 2025
En Knap Festival 2025 Slovenia
Magica Cinémathèque 2025 United Kingdom
Maldito Festival 2025 Spain
Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition 2025 Ireland