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Bucky Done Gun (Part I)
2024 (II & III in pre-production)
2-channel 4K digital video and animation, color, mono sound, wooden structures

Bucky Done Gun borrows from the road movie genre and unfolds through a drifting conversation between two friends. Their dialogue follows the trajectory of two 3D-rendered artifacts: a Mercedes-Benz car roof and a mineralized hoard of nails. These objects do not illustrate a story so much as they act upon one, shifting the register from narrative to encounter and triggering associations that move from the Palestinian city of Nablus to questions of desire, pleasure, and the vulnerability of corporeal life under occupation.
Within this speculative terrain, the lion emerges as a contemporary figure of resistance, invoking the Palestinian militant group Areen Alousoud (The Lion’s Den). The film opens with the line, “A lion came to me and told me to come…”, taken from the lyrics of Shabjdeed’s (BLTNM) track “Rad Saree3”, an echo of traditional Arabic storytelling tropes of masculine prowess. Here, the lion becomes a spectral call to arms, moving between myth and politics as it courses through networked media environments.
Composing its world through layered fragments, Bucky Done Gun traces how political drives and intensities move through objects as they accumulate, lather, and slip into new configurations.