Generational Journey: Video Art

Documentary-artistic film (2020)

“Generational Journey” is an intimate record of my father’s trip to his native Mauritania – the country he left many years ago. I accompany him with a camera, trying to understand his story, his choices, and what remains within a person after leaving their place of origin.

It is not a conventional documentary – it is video art. An image composed of fragments of everyday life, conversations, gazes, sounds, and silence. Multiple layers intertwine here: personal, cultural, and political. The film speaks about migration – but the invisible, internal one. About being in-between: between continents, languages, and generations.

For my father, this journey was a return – to people, landscapes, to memories that have not faded. For me, it is a moment in which I try to build a relationship with a place that is distant, yet a home of my family. I observe and document, but I also immerse myself – as an artist and as a daughter.

“Generational Journey” is also an attempt to capture what is fleeting: gestures, atmospheres, fragments of language. The film is built at the intersection of documentary and visual poetry. It is a work about the inheritance of memory and about how art can become a tool for closeness.