On the occasion of Farah Al Qasimi’s exhibition “Poltergeist” at C/O Berlin, the Julia Stoschek Foundation presented a selection of her video works – complemented by an online conversation between the artist and assistant curator Line Ajan.

Expanding on Farah Al Qasimi’s fascination with horror films and the aesthetics of B movies as seen in “Poltergeist”, the screening gathered three of her films that portray hybrid characters stuck in liminal spaces and states. Echoing the exhibition’s exploration of the sonic and haptic traces supposedly left by unseen forces on our world, the films center otherworldly figures—a jinn, a mermaid, an influencer trapped inside an app—that disrupt colonial and traditional Western narratives or accentuate the peculiarities of our hyperconnected world. Through music and quirky dialogue, these films also address tangible issues in the UAE, from gentrification to water pollution, with humor.