Movie

Autobiographical Patterns

“Autobiographical Patterns refers to the practice, common to many Islamic countries, of henna-drawn hand designs.”

The video shows the artist almost obsessively writing an autobiographical text in French onto her own hand, until the repeated overlays of words come to resemble a mysterious, intricate, Arabesque pattern. The process of writing functions as a mark of identity, a determination to write her own subjective experience into representational narratives, to inscribe her own fiction of identity. [Overview courtesy of Lux Online]

Director

Zineb Sedira

Status

Released

Release date

01/01/1996

Original language

English