2025
Personal and Collaborative Works
Imagine Me Like A Country Of Love
More Spilled Blood Than Drinkable Water
30 Years of George Hobeika
The Assasination of the Wild Goat
Rough Around The Edges
Sound Design
Synopsis Imagine Me Like a Country of Love is an experimental short film that explores the emotional and physical landscapes of returning to a homeland transformed by time and conflict. Through a blend of contemporary footage from Yemen, recovered archival family photographs, and animation, the film presents a fragmented, poetic reflection on memory, belonging, and grief. Inspired by my own return to Yemen after nearly a decade away, the film examines what happens when the memories we left behind are disturbed. With the help of my mother, I recovered family photographs once thought to be lost during the war—images that now serve as a visual thread through the narrative. The film moves like memory itself: disjointed, layered, and uncertain. It is a meditation on the dissonance of return and the emotional aftermath of conflict—not in its visible ruins, but in what remains quietly unsettled.
Synopsis More Spilled Blood Than Drinkable Water (2025), takes place, like two previous works, in Karantina, a former quarantine district in northeastern Beirut bordered by the Beirut River. One of the most polluted parts of the city due to its proximity to the port, a waste sorting facility, and an infamous, now-closed slaughterhouse, the area has witnessed environmental crises and uncounted deaths. In the film, the disembodied voice of a paranormal investigator recounts her contemplative journey along the river’s course as a descent into the underworld, addressing the chemical compounds, spectral echoes, foul odour, and invisible presences that dwell in a dystopian landscape made of flows and stagnations. As the camera follows the emergences and submergences of the riverine water, it captures glimpses of deteriorating ecologies and the wavering reflections of industrial infrastructures while the narration—part investigative report, part diary entry, part speculative fiction—entangles historical chronologies in a non-linear sequence. Blending documentary realism, abstract sequences, and fictional genres, the work slowly excavates deep sediments of sorrows within a wounded landscape haunted by the spirits of uncountable entities, both human and non-human, who lost their lives there. Turning the water body into a portal onto intangible worlds and an uneasy mirror of the present, Aprahamian’s work ponders over and bears witness to the aftermath of violence, historical trauma, and environmental degradation.
Synopsis This year marks the 30th anniversary of Lebanese brand Georges Hobeika — a house built on craftsmanship, elegance, and a deep love for couture. To celebrate this milestone, the father-son duo behind the heritage maison share a special film with Vogue Arabia, retracing their journey from the very first atelier in Beirut to the global stage of Paris.
Excerpt https://www.voguearabia.com/video/watch/celebrating-30-years-of-georges-hobeika
Editing, Sound Design, and Music Production
Synopsis The Assasination of The Wild Goat is an experimental short film that utilizes 19th-century Iranian archival photographs leaked online last year. The film delineates animals as marginalized historical agents, often excluded from dominant historical narratives. It portrays an autonomous government of animals led by a wild goat, whose collapse is driven by hunting. By combining these leaked archival photographs with online footage of hunting, the project reflects on history while shedding light on the ongoing threat that hunting poses to wild goats and rams in Iran.
Synopsis Rough Around The Edges is a visual auto-ethnography that revisits a traumatic experience of sexual assault in adolescence, emerging from memory and resurfacing as a sensorial encounter with trauma rather than presenting a conventional narrative. Through found footage, filmed material, and 3D renderings, the work layers sonic testimonies from women who have lived through similar experiences. The sound design interrupts these voices with the imagined presence of the assaulter; a deliberately alien timbre that crawls under the skin. Rough Around The Edges functions as a trial in experiential resonance, privileging immersion over exposition.