Mulberry توت
Mulberry توت
by Anouch Basbous
Mulberry توت
Video • 03:18 • Lebanon • Lebanese
“Aabdine Lebanon, August 2024: I wanted to film the mulberry tree and a hand picking its fruits."
Mulberry is a short visual poem that bears witness to a land marked by colonization and ecocide. Through a subjective gaze, the film lingers on a mulberry tree, mountains, stones, and the creatures that inhabit them, tracing forms of resilience that resist erasure.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Anouch Basbous (she/her) (1999) is an artist and filmmaker who graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Marseille. In 2021 she directed the short essay film Hatef Sada, which was screened in several international film festivals. Her work unfolds between Marseille and Lebanon, where she questions our relationship to fantasy and imagination in a world marked by contemporary necropolitics, inviting other worlds and invisible presences to haunt her process in order to envision collective forms of emancipation. In parallel, she works as an editor, a tool she uses as a space for experimentation and resistance to dominant narrative systems.
