Mother of Fog (2024)

Director: Farah Al Qasimi

In what could be considered a follow up to Al Qasimi’s 2020 work Mother of Fire, she once again invokes the figure of the jinn (spirits in Islamic mythology) to explore the ghosts of British imperialism in the UAE. As its spectre lingers on the horizon, two teenage girls seek to liberate a pirate damned to spend purgatory on a site now being developed into a hotel. Originally commissioned for Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Al Qasimi entangles historical narratives with contemporary notions of piracy. In examining how it has been historically and culturally represented, new perspectives of old mythographies come into focus. (Myriam Mouflih)

Cast

Aaliyah Alawadhi

Noura

Almaha Jarallah

Meitha

Gaith Abdullah

Majid Bin Rashid

Steven John Bond

Sir Henry William Clarke

Farah Al Qasimi

Um Al Dhabaab

Jusab Channa

Jusab Channa/Jack Sparrow