Majid Al-Remaihi

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Set in the waning days of the Dhofar War in 1972, NATURAL STATE follows an oryx as it escapes a looting convoy of the British Army. Through this allegorical flight, the oryx becomes a living metaphor for the collapse of a dream and the violence of imperial extraction.

Majid Al-Remaihi

Majid Al-Remaihi is a filmmaker and artist from Doha, Qatar. Before enrolling at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, he made the short film *And Then They Burn the Sea* in close collaboration with Cambodian director Rithy Panh. This premiered at Locarno in 2021. His filmmaking practice oscillates between documentary methods and reconstructions of the intangible. He explores the realm of the unnoticed and the invisible as points where history, power and social conditions condense. Since 2019, he has also been film programmer for the Doha Film Institute. More recently, he was assistant curator of the exhibition “Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinema, Amplified Voices,” put on during the Venice Biennale in 2024.

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