What goes up

Trying to fly home, getting let down again and again. The downfall of a people. A government. A western road trip for the two crash sites of two Iraqi pilots who were training on F16s in Arizona. To see if the land bore traces of their impact. The road to Bagdad, AZ, a tiny town with a giant mine. How to excavate the sky.

Samar Al Summary, United States, 2024, 30 min, in English with hardcoded English text

About the Artist

Samar Al Summary was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (1988). Her work disorients west and east, progress and regress, belatedness and contemporariness. She is an artist and writer who has worked in video, installation, photography, and text. Her videos have screened at Museum für Neue Kunst during the Freiburg Biennial (June 2023), RIFF, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland (September 2020), Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany (May 2020), Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY (October 2018), Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM (June 2017). She is currently pursuing an MFA in New Genres at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.