Found Objects No.19:

Your Dark Hair Ihsan
Tala Hadid
Documentary | Morocco | 2004 

In Your Dark Hair, Ihsan, a man returns to his homeland to rediscover the mother who left him. This emotive and vivid film explores the tragedy and romance inherent in memories. By blending dream sequence, flashback, and realism into one smooth wave, the film captures the surreal intangibility of reclaiming a past through fragments of memory. Both powerful and gentle, Your Dark Hair, Ihsan works as an evocative ebb and flow of past and present, memory and history, and departure and return. 

 YOUR DARK HAIR IHSAN

November 23, 2011

By Tom Devriendt 

Born in London to a Moroccan mother and an Iraqi father, Tala Hadid completed her 12-minute short thesis film Your Dark Hair Ihsan in 2005. Recorded in Morocco and its Rif Mountains, the film was awarded the Cinecolor/Kodak Prize (2005) and the Panorama Best short Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival (2006).