🍿 his smell (dir. kalil haddad, 2024)

the physical odour and the metaphysical reality are symbolically reciprocal…smells are often evaluated, therefore, by the positive or negative value of the remembered context.

— anthony synott, “a sociology of smell”, can. rev. of soc. & anth., 1991

a still from kalil haddad’s HIS SMELL, of the protagonist’s silhouette against a neutral background of an apartment’s interior