Photo: Khaled Abdulwahed
Backbone is a feature documentary retracing personal and collective memory through a return journey to Syria. By juxtaposing archival photographs with present-day footage, the film reflects on absence, transformation, and belonging.
Khaled Abdulwahed is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Leipzig.
Georgian Documentary Cinema Research
Revenge of the Unfinished
Die Kuhlthexe
L’in-ouï
Fiktionsbescheinigung
Back to the Roots
To All Mothers and Non-Mothers
The Fire Last Time…
WITCH: Fragments toward a Sorceress Figure
MAÍZ: Symptomatologies of a Living Archive
Amutasxaña
SAHARA
Syria’s Queer Memory
Backbone
Boundary Between River Crossings
The Right to Forget
Solar Geoengineering Archive, 1991 / 2025 / 2059
RETREAT (hospital life)
The Dew Point
Sounding Care
STRUCTURING AN ARCHIVE
Changed by Water
Cinema-ye Azad
Madrilinear Oral Archive
Sentimental Punk – Hands-On!
Contingent Snapshot
With Hasan in Gaza
The Giannozzo Archive Project
This Soil, That Soil
Journey Again: On the Trail of Migration and Belonging
Dad’s Sake Box
Playing Our Politics: Theatrical Archives and Social Movements in Peru
Drawn to Ritual Articles, For the Time Being
Friendships
The Cemeteries of Kimsesiz, Turkey
No One Bears Witness for the Witness: Testimonies of the Ngiba Language
Un-Silencing!
Notes on an Impossible Chronicle
Time for Friendship
A Manual for Imaginative Justice
Queer Unschool South Asia
Sentiers (Archives du Rif)
PODIUM (You Have Three Minutes)
Mundo Sabana
Morgenkreis
Autobiographical Stop-Motion Workshop for Women with Incarcerated Family Members
Non-Aligned Feminist Friendships
THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE... LET IT BURN!
Manifested Dreams — Camp of the Exploited
Transterritorios: Laboratorio nómade de prácticas radiofónicas
Kwibuka, or How We Remember the Ending of Time
Bar Talks: An Online Queer Talk Show
Freedom Trap
Mental State of Time: Mobile Self-empowerment Workshops and Poster Action
The Kiewa River Sound Map
Body in Transit
From Underground to the Ground: Voices of Miners
Photo Archive of Korean Shrines and Shamans
Lengger-Gallogallina: A Transoceanic, Anticolonial Ritual for Ancestral Corpodivinities
Dances and Songs of the Forest – Field Research on Forest Knowledge –
Wandering Eye
Technostalgia Series
Scores for Attunement
-ov(a) -ev(a) -in(a)
Xiuhamatilizmatl: A Malacachtepec Momozco/Milpa Alta Herbarium
If Only
Doubt, Ufos and unpopular Archives
Museo Afroviviente
Ganga
Ain't No Party Here
The School of Lost Knowledges
How to Turn a Body Inside Out
Face of the Motherland
Quem deu nome à Terra
War and Peace
Memoria Máquina
We Hid Everything Important
Via Verso
Beyond Wishful Thinking
Deterioration of Memory
My House Is a Magic Tree
Ost-östlicher Divan: Divarha/Duvarlar
The Library of Black Levity
Gèlèdé
Chris-sis: Inaccessible Files 00BC-Forever II
Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains
Eure Wege im Unland
Institute for Post-Nationalist Technological Consciousness
I Don’t Want to Be Just a Memory
too cool to burn
Chattering of Teeth
The Singing Telegraph
Orikis
The Non-Aligned Zagreb
As Loud as Daylight
Vestige
From Body to Body
Monuments rapatriables, monuments rapatriés
We Have Always Lived in the End Times
