Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another—Rehearsal
Single-channel video (color, sound), 14'20". 2023 

In RPGs (role-playing game), one could say that real life can be rehearsed in a superstitious manner, with supernatural beings and worlds. Since the emergence of computer processing power and video games, the third world was a source for worldbuilding and space to apply game operations. Those games are not isolated from the socio-cultural and political environment that they are developed in. On the other hand, third-world gamers, developers, streamers, and hackers managed to modify those games and apply their own hyperreality in order to rehearse their world. This project explores how Palestinian players, GTA mods, and servers are simulating real life under colonial rule. Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another - Rehearsal examines Los Santos as a corollary to Palestine.

Commissioned by Singapore Art Museum, Landscapes of the Political Imaginary, Open Systems.
Curated by Duncan Bass.


Selected Exhibitions and Screenings:
2026 — Cruising in Uncanny Realities, Wuhan bǎilin Film Festival, Wuhan, China
2025 — Whispers, Hubbub and Paradoxes, Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
2025 — Out of Bounds, ArteEast, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, USA
2025 — Maknana: An Archaeology of New Media Art in the Arab World, Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2025 — London Short Film Festival, London, UK
2024 — Ultracinema Experimental Film Festival, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, Mexico
2024 — Beta Festival, Dublin, Ireland
2024 — Tashweesh Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
2024 — Supermodel, Soft Centre, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2024 — 6th Gabès Cinema Fen Festival, Gabès, Tunisia
2024 — A Tyrant’s Fear of Songs, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2023 — Landscapes of the Political Imaginary, Open Systems, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore