Mohammed Ben Abdallah

Mohammed Ben Abdallah from "Anatomy of a Revolution", 2023, 19 minutes which was part of the exhibition "Routes of Rebellion" with works by Jesse Weaver Shipley and curated by Robin Riskin and Patrick Nii Okanta.

On the eve of a revolution, a writer, a revolutionary, and a dancer contemplate their collective past and future. The short film interweaves fiction, memory, philosophy, and drama, through a bricolage of sampled text and theatrics. Stories of military seizure are counterposed with subjects who grapple with the legacies of violence but still dream of a better world. Revolutionaries can be saviors, villians, or both; and so may be the citizens who copy them.