The video Captain is a melancholy allegory of the science fiction genre of the late 1960s (especially the US television series Star Trek), and the never-realised utopian dream of a better world.
One of the first science fiction television series; a forerunner of Star Trek. The low-budget epic lacked the resources required to stage elaborate spaceflight action sequences.
Shot in the urgency of the July 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, these four out of eight short videos present a fantastic ledger of how the average Lebanese negotiated their everyday lives during and immediately following the war.
Filming the passageways between Egypt and Gaza is forbidden. Since 2003, the artist decided to secretly document his own travels between Cairo and Rafah.
