Mother of Fog (2024)
• March 1st, 2024 • 0h 29min
Fantasy, Documentary
Overview
In what could be considered a follow up to Al Qasimi’s 2020 work Mother of Fire, she once again invokes the figure of the jinn (spirits in Islamic mythology) to explore the ghosts of British imperialism in the UAE. As its spectre lingers on the horizon, two teenage girls seek to liberate a pirate damned to spend purgatory on a site now being developed into a hotel. Originally commissioned for Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Al Qasimi entangles historical narratives with contemporary notions of piracy. In examining how it has been historically and culturally represented, new perspectives of old mythographies come into focus. (Myriam Mouflih)
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Une brèche écarlate
Released on: 2025-02-26
Mystery, Fantasy
Through thread and textile, an Asian seamstress tries to escape from the factory.
The Song of the Years to Come
Released on: 2024-04-08
Documentary, Family, History
On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An et...
The Garden Cadences
Released on: 2024-03-23
Documentary
Jone is ready to fly. She finds herself at the beginning of something new, but before she moves on, ...
A Common Sequence
Released on: 2023-01-20
Documentary
An interconnected look at tradition, colonialism, property, faith, and science, as seen through labo...
to boyhood, i never knew him
Released on: 2022-12-13
Documentary
Archive footage from 2006 - 2010 of a young girl growing up during the ages of four to eight. Only f...
Notes of Resistance and Erasure
Released on: 2021-06-16
Documentary
This experimental short traces the lifespan of the graffiti and murals present at the occupation of ...
A Sad, Sad Ghost Picking at the Hairs of Their Knuckles
Released on: 2023-01-31
Drama, Fantasy
A wandering young woman explores the crevices of her apartment, of her corporeal creases, as well as...
Tierra en Trance
Released on: 2022-11-06
Documentary
These are the dancing bodies in an agitated rapture: prelude to trance, invocation of the gods, cons...
Hegemony of Reality with Silent Fantasy
Released on: 2023-07-23
Fantasy
In a quiet class, there are 12 students who do not do the assignment from Rama (teacher). Seeing tha...
Between Tides
Released on: 2023-11-08
Documentary
a sensorial journey on a scottish island reminding us of the connection between the living quest...
Tempo Rubato
Released on: 2025-11-07
Horror, Comedy, Fantasy, Music
The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducte...
Guisado on Sunset
Released on: 2019-08-04
Documentary, Fantasy
Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot—the kind you keep playing back in your head but...
Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker
Released on: 2007-07-15
Documentary
"Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker" project is a series of seven episodes of cinematic diaries. It is...
FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts
Released on: 2025-03-02
Documentary, Drama, Horror
Six sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history.
The Soil, which connects us
Released on: 2025-04-04
Documentary
In this movie, Dmytro Dokunov and Richard Marx explore the question of the different realities which...
The Mind We Live In
Released on: 2024-02-23
Documentary
Experimental documentary about what it means to be at peace.
An Uncountable Number of Threads
Released on: 2023-02-01
Documentary
Travel films have an established format with their own conventions, history and baggage. It is a med...