Everyone Has to Get Over His Biography
Similarly to the previous work Inch’Allah, this work by Yael Assaf again reflects what we could argue to be an imagined, almost curated connection. The film explores how intimacy and connection emerge through fragments rather than coherent narratives, weaving together photographs, archival footage, and personal memories into a shifting, non-linear walk of life, where stories and recollections constantly appear just to then dissolve. Identity and relational experience are shown as fluid, with meaning arising in both the spaces and connections between moments rather than in resolution. The work invites us to dwell on the meaning of these spaces, where personal histories continuously intersect and interact, and intimacy and closeness exist in this interim between absence and presence, and reappearing and disappearing.