2023 Beta x transmediale Residency
in collaboration with Beta festival

Bassam Issa Al-Sabah is a resident as part of the Beta x transmediale Residency programme. During their residency, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah will develop Uncensored Lilac – a new AI animated film.

  1. Uncensored Lilac, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, 2023

    Film Still

  2. Uncensored Lilac, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, 2023

    Film Still

  3. Film still, Uncensored Lilac, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, 2023

  4. Bassam Issa Al-Sabah Jennifer Mehigan, Uncensored Lilac, 2024

    Installation at transmediale studio

uncensored lilac

A story about revenge and desire, Uncensored Lilac questions the ways in which climate change affects and alters social and environmental relations. The film follows a group of goddesses, who may or may not be aliens, and their assembly of familiars, pets, servants, and technologies. Set in a dreamlike hallucinatory landscape that mutates between ornate embellishments and its original form, the landscape and the assembly have been invaded and altered by a toxic species, making them nurturing but venomous.

exhibition overview