Kitâb al-Isfâr: Book of the Journey (2020)

'What remains of emotions, dreams, desires, when one disappears?' Moving between past and present, between ritual and dreams, Baba Hillman's quiet masterpiece explores mystical and near-death experience in a meditation on time and memory, a ritual to ward off the darkness. At once a real and an inner voyage, stemming from a near-death experience in the mountains north of Malaga, 'Kitâb al-Isfâr' progresses step by step, like a diary of questions raised by encounters, first in Spain, then in Paris, Norway and Scotland; a spiritual quest highlighted by the sensuality of 8 and 16mm...a film composed like a poem, inspired by the words of Sufi poet and philosopher Ibn 'Arabi.