The Road Is a Grey Tape

08.22.2016

directed by VIRGINIE KHATEEB

The Road Is A Grey Tape is a story about finding clarity of self in the experience of becoming lost. To know oneself is obviously a deeply personal path. But, in a way, the personal is precisely what one seeks to transcend in “knowing.” In religious thought, truly discovering the self often means to discard the self—the ego, illusions every single one of us builds in order to tell the story of who we are—and to instead exist in the present moment. Isn’t this, after all, the project of being human? As Socrates says in Plato’s dialogue “Phaedrus,” “I am not yet able, as the Delphic inscription has it, to know myself; so it seems to me ridiculous, when I do not yet know that, to investigate irrelevant things.”

Credits

Director / Virginie Khateeb

Cinematography / WANE

Stylist / Pauline Collet

Model / Xavier Buestel @Rockmen

Set Design / Erin Korus

Grooming / Michale Delmas using Balmain Hair

On-Set Producer / Diane Khateeb

Music by Daniel Harts

Special Thanks to Wooyoungmi and Full Motion