Artist Info, Projects
A Prayer in Fragments, 2025
Short film, 3 mins
A Prayer in Fragments is a short experimental documentary that builds on the foundation of Tashkeel, continuing a personal excavation of faith, language, and inherited silence. The film serves as a visual and auditory response to my uncle’s archival journal entry from two decades ago, in which he wrote candidly about his relationship with Islam and his search for purpose.
Through the year-long process of transcribing his words and writing my own response, A Prayer in Fragments emerged; stitched together from scattered footage filmed across seasons, moments, and states of being. The film interpolates the struggle to pray: not only the act itself, but the internal dissonance that comes with it. Whispers of prayer lace an atmospheric soundscape, while an audio retelling of my journal entry gently overlays the visuals, forming a dialogue across time, identity, and distance.
Drawing from the same tensions that shape Tashkeel, the film explores how meaning splinters across generations; between devotion and doubt, between queerness and tradition. It is a meditation on fractured faith, queer becoming, and the quiet, persistent attempt to reclaim the language of prayer on one’s own terms.
Shown as part of:
Group Shows:
OF FAITH & FRACTURE - SERF Gallery, (2025)