Majid Al-Remaihi is a filmmaker, artist, and film programmer from Doha, Qatar.

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Majid Al-Remaihi is a filmmaker, artist and film programmer based between Doha and Paris. Working across film, installation, and the essay form, his practice moves between documentary methods and reconstructions of the intangible, exploring the unseen and invisible as points where history, power, and social conditions condense.

Al-Remaihi trained at Le Fresnoy — Studio national des arts contemporains. Before enrolling, he worked under the mentorship of Cambodian director Rithy Panh, under whom he made the short And Then They Burn the Sea (2021). An elegiac meditation on memory and loss, it was selected at the Locarno Film Festival, screened at Palm Springs ShortFest and forty festivals worldwide, and won Best Short at Vienna Shorts and the Silver Tanit at Carthage. His short Perishable Idol (2025) premiered in competition at CPH:DOX and screened at Punto de Vista and Go Short.

His installations extend these concerns into space. Natural State (2025), first shown at Le Fresnoy as a film installation, follows a 3D-rendered oryx across the archive, a figure between symbol and ghost, while A Donkey Will (2025), a gender-bent portrayal of the holy fool Nasreddin, was presented at the inaugural Bukhara Biennial.

Al-Remaihi served as assistant curator of Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinema, Amplified Voices, a traveling exhibition and unprecedented showcase of cinema from the Global South shown during the Venice Biennale 2024, Mathaf (Qatar), and Centro Cultural La Moneda (Chile). He has been a film programmer at the Doha Film Institute since 2019.

Installation view of And Then They Burn the Sea: two projections facing each other in a darkened room
And Then They Burn the Sea — installation view
majid.alremaihi@gmail.com
BasedDoha / Paris
Affection(s)
            “And certainly one is again faced with the problem about the hen and the egg; the dogma produces the sensibility, but it must itself have been produced by it. But to say that the dogma does not influence the sensibility is absurd.
            People only say it when they are trying to put the sensibility in a peculiar state over the dogma.
The conflict between the scientific and aesthetic points of view, between which I have been trying to arbitrate, gives them a reason; people feel uncertain as to what sort of validity a critical dogma can have, how far one ought to be trying to be independent of one’s own preferences, and do not want their sensibility to be justified by reasons because they are afraid that once they start reasoning they will fall into the wrong point of view.”
           William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, 1930

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