SNAKES &
LADDERS
Snakes and Ladders is an imaginary excursion, examining darkness, metaphorically, sensorially and symbolically. Hopelessly powerless bodies move, scan a dying city, try to read the future in the dark. The film creates a duality between a human body and a concrete building - attempting to open pathways of perception by melting the fortifications of our constructed meanings – by observing matter and thought, in their raw form. In darkness, we construct, in light we deconstruct.
Commissioned by MAQAMAT for BIPOD 2022, the film was screened at Sursok Palace as part of Cameras of October.
Selected for screening at Cinedans FEST '22 and was featured in the International Short Film Competition.
Nader Bahsoun Cinematographer & Co-director
Yara Boustany Dancer & Co-director
Giorgios Gargalas Sound Design
Racha Baroud Voice
Charlie Laban Trier Voice
Saseen Kawzally Translation
Mezyed Azrai Light Assistant