Bashar Murkus, "MILK مِلْك", press conference of the 10 July 2022

The floor is black, covered in sponges that absorb light and dampen noises. Then bodies of flesh and blood, women, enter. They are crying. Their white tears are tears of milk, the same milk they would have given their children, had they not been lost. Then bodies, medical dummies examined are piled up on the stage. Death and life are everywhere. In this new opus, the young Palestinian director talks about our world like a modern tragedy in which the disaster that strikes the bodies of women is visible, palpable, frightening. Women who, to survive, turn what surrounds and touches them into a landscape of incandescent beauty. They have the ancient power to transform the unspeakable. With all the power of ellipsis, this canonical, immersive, and empathetic tragedy shifts from black to white. With astonishing acuity, it reminds us that Bashar Murkus’s talent resides in his formidable ability to unfold a poetic and universal language as visual as it is sensual. A rare talent indeed.