‘’Somewhere in the vastness of a dream sits colour.’’

The Wind Swept All The Colours, is a collaborative audio-visual project by Michel Mazza - Music composer and Sound designer based in Hudson, New York - USA. And Ralf Moussa Cinematographer with multidisciplinary interests based in Beirut - Lebanon. While it’s kept to media kind of news, propaganda and wars that we’ve left the remains of colour and light to slip down the alleys of unproductivity in the name of being idle to issues of bigger nature. The project is based on Michel’s album under the acronym OdNu "The Wind Swept All the Colours" a sound work that weaves together orchestral themes, heavily manipulated loops, field recordings, synthesizers, guitars and distortion, creating a vivid auditory experience akin to a film playing in your imagination. Drawing from the realms of orchestral music, IDM, ambient, and micro-sound, it delves into themes of drama, suspense, and at times, dark humor, painting a picture of a dusty, polluted landscape filled with particles that taint everything.

When Ralf was on a research that could get the polluted identity of Beirut as for being a generational conflict zone, reach higher levels of global concern. As Beirut and New York are two pretty populated cities. The audio visual work has to set ties between artists in the saturated times where Artificial Intelligence is imposed as competition to the human element found in the arts.

Vermilia, an ice skater since ever, is found at battle with some unpleasant small parasite birdlike creatures trying to untie a connection between her and a dear place. The visual piece unfolds with elements of color and movement that has to discuss an ongoing dialect between a series of disconnected events, that could be pictured as connected and vice versa. Featuring Rebecca Howayek, a professional ballerina living in Amchit, a maritime themed town on the coastal side of Lebanon. A choreography of sorts has set ties between sound and image, frame and movement coming out with what could approach itself to be a passage that takes as main theme the role of mobile devices in today’s approach to nature, the disconnection of thought from actuality within the consciousness of the youth. A work that took place remotely between New York & Beirut over the period of 2 months where OdNu and Ralf took into function different techniques and points of relevance into their disciplines of choice, from analog to digital processes.

In Another Country, is a collaborative film work based on a poetry book by the swedish writer Mare Kandre of the same title that inspired the efforts of Henrik Meierkord & Knivtid to come out with I Ett Annat Land an ambient full length sound work. When discussing a visuals video with Ralf in Beirut, the idea extended into a film like format instead. Back when Beirut was going through a state of war during the month of September of the year 2024. The film incorporates a fictional embodiment of Mare Kandre the writer, landing in Beirut on a writing residency studying her fictional ‘’Lebanese’’ origins. All when a sudden war blows into the country in real life, where Mare finds herself subject to fight/ flight mode of thought that she got no business in. Screening these two works in Beirut, is but the mandatory move for these works to be seen in a suitable format. That really comes to attempt resembling the state in which these two works were accomplished. In the times where amounts of effort, found to blend works of art and media news and updates within a paradigm of sorts.

Standing on the margins of a digital age, where the grandiosity of a film screen is being reduced to micro-swiping habits where the audiences are in fact in need for traditional cinema formats. Think of it as a way to see what lay under piles of crisis hiding down social dynamics. Whereas cinema’s duty is to release that sort of blood pressure repression the public opinion’s brain is going through due to the excessive usage of media outlets. On another hand, I’d like to thank Zicohouse where the two films will be screened on Thursday the 12th of June 2025, 8:30 p.m whom I really admire for inviting me to do this screening. As it previously hosted me in residency for 3 months a year ago. That place is the type of arthouses, that could be stretching out the lifting hand to independent cinema besides bigger format theaters. Post an economic collapse so huge, filmmakers and film societies can’t be faced with the huge amounts of money and logistics making a film and screening it can cost. While the main requirement of longevity to this medium is the correct breather for these films to show their fruits to their creatives. Instead of them being swiped along the staircase of propaganda on socials where these endeavors look for exposure but find themselves deepening within the pulls and tides a messy social swamp is offering them in return.