Fahrenheit
Kamil Dossar / Iraq & Denmark / 2026 / World Premiere / 20 min
Artist Kamil Dossar's new film is an elliptical work from Iraq, where people with lizard heads appear in a film that we piece together ourselves as we experience it.
A pianist with a lizard head sits at his grand piano on a stage and works on Bach’s Goldberg Variations. A woman – also with a lizard head – goes about her work of wiping tables in an empty café overlooking Baghdad. At one of the tables, the silhouettes of a young couple sit and talk, but on the other side of the wall mirrors no one is sitting.
Many buttons are pressed in visual artist Kamil Dossar’s new video work, which simultaneously activates and deconstructs our unconscious expectations of cinematic situations. The scenes in ‘Fahrenheit’, which are based on material from his recent installation at Overgaden, resemble scenes from a film, but appear enigmatic as fragments of a world. A post-cinematic work with decolonial undertones from a country that is rarely depicted in film.
