Asaad

Journal

Fragments from the life
behind the work.

6 entries.
Written when there was
something worth keeping.

  • Life
  • Process
  • Film
  • Music
  • Places
  • Experiments
Asaad in headphones holding Gambry, his cocker spaniel puppy, at dusk

Life

A QUIET KIND OF COMPANY

Some parts of life don’t ask to become work. They simply remind me who I am when the work stops.

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A dim interior frame from the short film WHAT REMAINS

Film · Process

MAKING MEMORY VISIBLE

Notes from WHAT REMAINS, on giving absence something you can actually look at.

Aerial view across Derna and its surrounding hills

Film · Places

WHAT THE CAMERA COULDN’T FIX

Working in Derna, and the difference between observing a place and performing its pain.

Asaad behind a drum kit mid-performance

Music · Life

EVERYTHING HAS A RHYTHM

Drums, cuts, walking, waves. I think I’ve only ever been doing one thing.

written · awaiting its own frames

Asaad on the road, portrait against the coast

Life · Process

MORE THAN A JOB TITLE

How a short film about my job ended up settling what to call myself.

Two generations walking the dunes as towers rise from the landscape

Film · Process

REALITY DESIGNED FOR CGI

Shooting a desert so that a city could be built into it later, invisibly.

There’s no schedule to this. When something is worth keeping, it ends up here, usually months late.