You May Own the Lanterns but We Have the Light قد تملكون القناديل، لكن الضوء لنا

The trilogy You May Own the Lanterns, but We Have the Light consists of three black-and-white short films: Home Alone, Eyeshadow Dark as Night, and Children of Darkness. The videos are composed of cartoon footage and archival animations that have been redrawn and reanimated. The work draws inspiration from the magic lantern and the evolution of the language and techniques of animation, where imagination and animistic desires take shape through highly rigid and hierarchical production methods and optical engineering. The various sequences from the rediscovered cartoons are edited and transformed to paint a picture of a city shrouded in darkness, where the inhabitants engage in various forms of escapism and confrontation.