This video essay examines how war persists beyond ceasefires as an inherited condition embedded in childhood, language, play, and everyday objects. Moving between intimate family memory and structural analysis, the work treats weapons not only as tools of violence but as cultural presences that shape perception, desire, and political imagination. Through degraded archival images, domestic artifacts, and fragmented soundscapes, the film asks whether the normalization of arms makes civil war inevitable and whether breaking this inheritance is still possible.
Based on the text by Najeeb Al-Attar: The Land of Lead and Blood
