Like a lifetime in miniature, tennis is filled with moments of opportunity; advantage, struggle; fault, overcoming obstacles; break, and emotional vulnerability; love. Can the invention of new styles lead to the evolution of the game? The work follows the tennis ball before, during and after contact with the racket, like a projectile in motion. An experimental documentary about those who choose to play, an anthology of five vignettes, where players evoke setup, impact and recovery.
Tennis players: Ammar Al Hoqbani; Mena El Shazly; Mohsen El Shazly; Ola Abou Zekry.
Animation and Special Effects: SAREENA (Omar Bazan).
Additional dramaturgy: Billy Marchenski.
Editing and analogue mixing: Mena El Shazly
Sound Design and Mixing: Adham Zidan.
Translation: Zainab Magdy
Support by Diriyah Art Futures (DAF) Emergent New Media Artists Programme, a programme of the Museums Commission of the Ministry of Culture, Saudi Arabia.
Production Management: Tshireletso Tshwenyane.
XR Lab: Philipp Wenning.
3D and VFX Studio: Sara Garf.
Special thanks to the ball kids, the Saudi Tennis Federation, Ayah Abdulkhaleq, Louis-Philippe Demers, Tamer El Said, Rick Treweek and Nadah El Shazly.