Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue) (2017)
‘To remember, sometimes you need other archaeological tools,’ says the voice over in Hiwa K’s Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue). The video depicts the artist walking across fields, wastelands, estates, going from Turkey to Athens and then to Rome, a path that mirrors his own journey as a child, when he fled Iraqi Kurdistan and reached Europe by foot. His “Pre-images” are fragments of a path whose final destination is uncertain. Commissioned by Documenta 14.
Director: Hiwa K
| Directing | Hiwa K | Director |
| Production | Abbas Nokhasteh | Producer |
| Editing | Steffen Martin | Editor |
| Sound | Steffen Martin | Sound Designer |
| Writing | Hiwa K | Writer |
| Crew | Constantine Nissidis | Cinematography |
| Crew | Constantinos Hadzinikolaou | Cinematography |
