Safiya Hawwa

"| love how monad 5 defies the other monads by being a person, you" My personal history of 2025 as it runs through everyone I know. Monad 5 is a film composed of parts of me and parts of others, texts, images, and found footage gathered over a year, a shitting portrait of how we move through the world now.

a transmission from the first life lived entirely through connection. somewhere between two modems and a master plan, a new self emerges. every signal is a promise. they're never gonna believe us twin, and that's okay. and it's beautiful. this film was created for a single screening in montréal and is intended to remain unseen thereafter.

wunsch drei (3) is about the alchemy of repetition, about friendship. Filmed in Zurich, a city that turns you inward until you come out the other side, the film adopts an online mode of creation, bridging the terrestrial with the "outside". These relations could only arise within an internet native experience, precisely in relation to making sense of the IRL, while digital space is increasingly governed by the same constraints as lived experience, just as the world is reshaped by network logic. It is a coming of age in the 21st century. This short film was shot during summer 2025, distributed in different cuts.

400 trillion vibrations documents a network of modern mystics rehearsing the end of the world over and over again. the film follows the making of a force through image making and circulation, painting the great landscapes of a new earth. “this poem, like the paintings, is not really about nature. it is not what is seen. it is what is known forever in the mind.” agnes martin

a transmission from the first life lived entirely through connection. somewhere between two modems and a master plan, a new self emerges. every signal is a promise. they're never gonna believe us twin, and that's okay. and it's beautiful. this film was created for a single screening in montréal and is intended to remain unseen thereafter.

Wunsch zwei(2) is not about nightmares or fear, it’s about love. It’s is a coming of age. It’s wunschmaschinen. This short film was shot between summer 2022 - fall 2024, distributed in different cuts.

wunsch drei (3) is about the alchemy of repetition, about friendship. Filmed in Zurich, a city that turns you inward until you come out the other side, the film adopts an online mode of creation, bridging the terrestrial with the "outside". These relations could only arise within an internet native experience, precisely in relation to making sense of the IRL, while digital space is increasingly governed by the same constraints as lived experience, just as the world is reshaped by network logic. It is a coming of age in the 21st century. This short film was shot during summer 2025, distributed in different cuts.

400 trillion vibrations documents a network of modern mystics rehearsing the end of the world over and over again. the film follows the making of a force through image making and circulation, painting the great landscapes of a new earth. “this poem, like the paintings, is not really about nature. it is not what is seen. it is what is known forever in the mind.” agnes martin

wunsch zwei(2) is not about nightmares or fear, it’s about love. it’s is a coming of age. it’s wunschmaschinen. this short film was shot between summer 2022 - fall 2024, distributed in different cuts.