Work in progress (2025.)

No feeling is final

ABOUT

No Feeling Is Final

This work originates from the experience of being unable to attend the funeral of a family member. Unable to travel to my home country, I was left without access to the ritual of farewell, the collective moment that marks and closes a death.

While my aunt was being buried in my home country, I was, at the same time but in another space, searching for a mosque in our shared country of migration as a place of closeness and recognition. My aunt was a migrant and of Muslim faith. I did not approach the mosque as a place of religious practice, but as the nearest spatial equivalent to her world that I could reach.

Unable to enter, I circled the building from the outside. This walking grew into a ritual and became the central gesture of the film. The impossibility of entering, and the return to what had passed, to what was slipping away, becomes visible in fragments of incomplete video recordings of the building. As I moved away and, at the same time, turned back toward the building, it became smaller and smaller. All the images I left behind slowly became all that remains to me.

The work develops as an imaginative ritual of farewell, composed through architecture, walking, voice, wind, trees, and mediated family images. The rhythm of prayer, through polyphony, does not enter the work as a representation of religious ritual, but as an exploration of repetition, return, and surrender.

What does a day that could never have happened look and sound like?

As part of Alles Anders, the work investigates how memory, grief, and distance can be transformed into cinematic space.

2.6 Narrator’s voice as a new character in the story

2.9 Rhythm: Writing, narrating, editing

3.8 Author as a voice: Author is present

3.9 The creative act as a way of becoming