ZEFT
(Nothing to be taken)
2016 - 2022
ZEFT is a work in development documentary theater performance, based on a series of found letters written by a girl who disappeared leaving nothing behind expect for them.
She would write the letters and mail them to herself.
She wrote 15 letters using different forms and pronouns. For her, the letters were an exercise of disappearance, an exercise during which she can reflect on the root of her desire to disappear, as a series of narrative experiences and experiments leading up to the moment of her disappearance.
We search within disappearance and the desire to survive, looking into ways the body can survive harm, and ways human defense mechanisms have developed to a point where they can be very exceptional and dangerous. The project is a documentary research project studying the possibility of creating a narrative about a person who disappeared using their archives.
CREW
Director:
Hakim Abdelnaeem
Text:
Hakim Abdelnaeem
Marik Renner
Movement Developer:
Mohamed Fouad
Performer:
Marik Renner
Art Director:
Karim Abdelnaeem
Sound Designer:
Nancy Mounir
Editing and Translation:
Mariam Ibrahim
Batool El Hinawy
Kenza Radi