A stranger abandons human life to journey into the barren wilderness and experience its exodus. We identify with his thoughts, in which we discover vanished worlds. My flowing tears transformed into an apocalyptic flood says the stranger. 

The film was shot in three deserts: Redayef in Tunisia, Wadi Al Hitan, and Wadi Degla in Egypt. This film was entirely produced remotely without actually the two filmmakers meeting each other in real life. “South of Ajdabya” founded by Esraa Elfeky from Egypt and Saif Fradj from Tunisia, is a 2022 made collective of filmmakers interested in the north African desert, its mythologies, geologies, and anthropology. 

Using a mix of old filmmaking techniques (analog) with digital drawings and contemporary audio-visual effects, the collective aims to rewrite a common lost memory of the North African region on which the subjective imagination interacts.

This film was developed through “BEYOND THE “NEW-NORM” program curated by Arab Media Lab in Marrakech Morroco.