Basma Al-Sharif: Ouroboros Film Screening

Ouroboros (2017) Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is both end and beginning: a death as regeneration. A 74-minute experimental narrative film that turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak, Ouroboros asks what it means to be human when humanity has failed.

Taking the form of a love story, the film's central character is Diego Marcon, a man who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain only to experience it again and again. In the course of a single day, his travel fuses together Native American territories, the ancient city of Matera, a castle in Brittany, and the ruins of the Gaza Strip into a single landscape.