The Wind & The Wind of Love is a Basil

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These two short films began after months of reading about the Ahwar marshlands. One afternoon, while napping at my grandmother’s house, I had a vivid dream: I received an envelope with a letter from someone in the past, asking me to build a small reed boat for his family. The feeling stayed with me, so I took my car to the northern areas of Kuwait, gathered reed, and started building. My first boat was made with reed and rope, the second with reed and metal. The process was slow and repetitive—it taught me patience, structure, and how deeply tied these materials are to land and memory. The music heard in 'The Wind' I composed inspired by the ritualistic process.

When I showed the prototypes and the short video to my grandmother, she told me she used to make tiny boats from squid bones she found along the shore as a child. That opened up a long conversation between us—about nature, craft, childhood, and the things we make when we're trying to understand something.

These films come out of that process. Then came about 'The wind of Love is a Basil' which was an homage to that conversation. They're about how making—by hand, by memory—can become a quiet way of staying close to disappearing places and stories.