The film and photographs of 64 Dusks formed part of Rania Stephan’s investigation of Soad Hosni’s life and death. A major star of Egyptian cinema who acted in 82 feature films between 1959 and 1991, Hosni mysteriously fell from the balcony of the seventh story of Stuart Towers, London one evening in June 2001. Stephan returned repeatedly to the scene of her suicide in the summer of 2010 during a residency at the Serpentine Gallery, filming a circumambulation around the site. Concurrently, regardless of where she was in the city, Stephan would take a photograph at the time of Hosni’s death, hoping, perhaps, to capture her last light.

In a dialectical relationship between the still and moving image, the snapshot conjures the movement of a momentary gesture while paradoxically the film’s circumambulation fixes the site of a momentous and inaccessible scene from the past.