
Directing
Martin Elia
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Directing
Credits
9 titles
Martin Elia is a filmmaker, writer, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the relationship between the individual and the urban space through a philosophical and political lens. His practice is rooted in existential and social inquiries, with a particular interest in the intersections of theology and philosophy in shaping both personal and collective identities.
Known for
NRThe last monk in an abandoned chapel dreams his way through a dying city and his own inner conflicts, paying whatever it takes to return home.
Into Temptation
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NRBetween two cities and two shores, and the journey in between. Images clash and intertwine in the photographer's mind, who wonders about the essence of the image.
About a Picture Before it Dies
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NRAdam, a taxi driver, is grappling with haunting visions of his wife and daughter who recently drowned. These images have driven him to escape the confines of his home, taking refuge in his trusty taxi. Along the way, he encounters an old man who regales him with a timeless tale of resurrection — prompting Adam to fulfill the legend, and ultimately confront his own destiny in solitude.
Birds Should Have Been Released
2023
NRIn a world full of technology manner to communicate with each other, D&A, hopeless lovers, have only the sea to send their letters through. Between the two countries they have the same fears,that their letters will never arrives, so they send another letter to express their fears.
Forever Yours
2022
NR"After Adam was expelled from paradise, he lived searching for images of past moments, while he continued to fall."
Pictures From a Fall
2024
10.0With the lack of personal video archive, Youhanna (the filmmaker) creates false memories using lost home videotapes shot between the 1990s and 2000s in Europe, Africa, and Asia, with the help of an Artificial intelligence programme, until a real, personal video archive surfaces, transporting him into the past to relive one more memory with his late mother.
And there was evening and there was morning. The first day
2025
Behind the camera
NRThe last monk in an abandoned chapel dreams his way through a dying city and his own inner conflicts, paying whatever it takes to return home.
Into Temptation
—
NRBetween two cities and two shores, and the journey in between. Images clash and intertwine in the photographer's mind, who wonders about the essence of the image.
About a Picture Before it Dies
—
NRAdam, a taxi driver, is grappling with haunting visions of his wife and daughter who recently drowned. These images have driven him to escape the confines of his home, taking refuge in his trusty taxi. Along the way, he encounters an old man who regales him with a timeless tale of resurrection — prompting Adam to fulfill the legend, and ultimately confront his own destiny in solitude.
Birds Should Have Been Released
2023
NRAdam, a taxi driver, is grappling with haunting visions of his wife and daughter who recently drowned. These images have driven him to escape the confines of his home, taking refuge in his trusty taxi. Along the way, he encounters an old man who regales him with a timeless tale of resurrection — prompting Adam to fulfill the legend, and ultimately confront his own destiny in solitude.
Birds Should Have Been Released
2023
NRIn a world full of technology manner to communicate with each other, D&A, hopeless lovers, have only the sea to send their letters through. Between the two countries they have the same fears,that their letters will never arrives, so they send another letter to express their fears.
Forever Yours
2022
NRIn a world full of technology manner to communicate with each other, D&A, hopeless lovers, have only the sea to send their letters through. Between the two countries they have the same fears,that their letters will never arrives, so they send another letter to express their fears.
Forever Yours
2022
NR"After Adam was expelled from paradise, he lived searching for images of past moments, while he continued to fall."
Pictures From a Fall
2024
NR"After Adam was expelled from paradise, he lived searching for images of past moments, while he continued to fall."
Pictures From a Fall
2024
10.0With the lack of personal video archive, Youhanna (the filmmaker) creates false memories using lost home videotapes shot between the 1990s and 2000s in Europe, Africa, and Asia, with the help of an Artificial intelligence programme, until a real, personal video archive surfaces, transporting him into the past to relive one more memory with his late mother.
And there was evening and there was morning. The first day
2025
