The making of the "Dust Bunnies" video started long before I began documenting the process. I first heard the song in early summer 2024, and as usual, Julia’s lyrics hit me hard.
The song stirred up emotions, resurfaced memories, and captured the collective grief we—those of us in Beirut—are still struggling to process since the “meteor” struck in 2019. And yet, nothing was getting better. Is***l’s catastrophic genocide against the people of G*z@ was spreading fast into Lebanon, eventually reaching Beirut that fall.
"Dust Bunnies" felt like heartbreak and pure rage wrapped into one. It put words to emotions I couldn’t quite articulate. Making the video became a way to channel those feelings into something cathartic.
I filmed the band performing at their usual recording studio,
@tuneforkstudios Once the edit was ready, I printed out scenes on a laser printer—hundreds of frames. For weeks, my studio was buried under numbered stacks of paper. Having the footage in physical form let me interact with it differently. I attacked the frames using blades, metal pins, sandpaper, masking tape, and markers, destroying them one by one. The process felt like animation, but instead of creating smooth motion, I was breaking it apart. Day after day, I scratched, tore, and scrubbed at the paper, turning the whole thing into a kind of meditative destruction.
Once I scanned the frames back in, the video took on its final form. The whole process became an exercise in letting go—as a filmmaker, as a person. Instead of chasing perfection, I focused on release. The final piece is an honest reflection of that process, with minimal digital interference beyond color correction.
Huge thanks to
@fadi_tabbal @juliasabra @pas_makdous @marwantohme for trusting me with their song, and to
@josettekhalil for her subtle but essential creative direction. You can watch the video now on YouTube (link in
@postcardsmusic bio) and pre-order their gorgeous new album "RIPE" on
@bandcamp with
@rupturedthelabel &
@t3records_berlin 
