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A car is passing along the highway, suddenly a jump back in time happens while the car is getting into a tunnel, then his driver is led to a shock begining to watch several images related with his job.

During my first return to my motherland after my migration to France, a trajectory of the travel leads me to Shahda, the historic place of the encountering between Zoroastrisme and Islam. A crossing through the desert, connects the night to the day, darkness to light, the present to past and the movement to immobility. It's happening in an intermediate time during which the décor is inverted to incorporate a space out of time. An oneiric universe reappears between the visible space and a spectral world.

1 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1993.

Elements utilized during a rite are manipulated: condensation, reiteration and rhythm, as well as the slow motion of the image in search of a deep sensation of corporal conscience; highlight of the sadic-aggressive tendencies and a high contrast between the "interior peace" and the extreme external aggressions. "Inner states" of the subject are re-created during a "trance". Evocation of the secret thread that connects the rite and the erotic-sexual thing with violence.

A quest for Al Khadir الخضر‎, the inner master. Al Khadir, a character generally unknown in Western culture, occupies a very important place in the popular and mystical knowledge of the countries of the Islamic rhizome, although its origins go back to ancient times. Al Khadir, literally the one who greens, inhabits the in-between world, the no-man's land, the fine interstice between the real and the unreal, life and death, sleep and wakefulness,.... this place is called Al Barzaj, the Isthmus. Where he passes, everything greens up, even the tracks of his footsteps are immediately covered with grass.