Lost Somehow

(2023)
5:30 minutes

In Lost Somehow, a man wakes alone in a desert landscape and immediately begins to walk. He appears disoriented, moving without a clear destination, as if driven by instinct rather than direction. His face is pixelated, withholding identity; he has become someone who no longer belongs anywhere.

A voiceover accompanies his movement. It is an English interpretation of a letter given to the filmmaker by an Egyptian migrant in Paris. The letter speaks of hope and expectation — of travelling toward a place imagined as offering work, stability, and prosperity — and of encountering instead exclusion, precarity, and loss. The voice describes a prolonged search that yields no resolution.

As the man continues through the desert, physical displacement mirrors a deeper mental state. He is lost both geographically and psychologically, suspended between past hopes and an uncertain present. The film leaves his situation unresolved, allowing the figure to remain anonymous — not as an absence, but as a condition shared by many.

Lost Somehow

(2023) 5:30 minutes

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In Lost Somehow, a man wakes alone in a desert landscape and immediately begins to walk. He appears disoriented, moving without a clear destination, as if driven by instinct rather than direction. His face is pixelated, withholding identity; he has become someone who no longer belongs anywhere.

(2023)
5:30 minutes