Short Film
04:00
Directed by: Ibrahim Khalid
Sound Design: Mahmoud Tarek
This film zooms out to implicate the global systems that make digital resistance necessary. This film exposes the invisible “microwork” that fuels artificial intelligence, often performed by precarious refugees and workers from the Global South. Unknowingly categorising data that may train surveillance algorithms or targeting systems, they become ghost workers in a chain of technological violence. By connecting this reality to Palestine, the film poses a devastating, recursive question about complicity in the digital age. It challenges the viewer to see the invisible hands that build the tools of oppression, framing data labor as a new frontier of colonial extraction and raising urgent ethical questions about the very infrastructure of our contemporary world.
Screened as part of the program Gaza: A Rehearsal for the End of the World, BEK Opening Week, Bergen, Norway (February 2026).