Roy: A Portrait (2012)
Single-channel digital film projection, 16:9, 7 minutes 7 seconds

Roy features Roy Dib, the Lebanese artist and filmmaker, in a quiet performance of presence. Doa Aly met Roy in Beirut in 2012, during an artist residency at Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts. In several interviews, Roy spoke of growing up as an altar boy in Tripoli, Lebanon, and of his journey to self-discovery upon relocating to Beirut. 

The film captures a single slow turn of the body, almost imperceptible, as Roy performs a series of pared-down gestures that seem to emerge from deep memory. His movements are deliberate, sensual, devotional. His body becomes both altar and testimony.

Roy evokes the spiritual as a terrain of vulnerability and transfiguration. It is a quiet reckoning, a choreography of stillness and return.

The film was produced by Ashkal Alwan. Set to Le Banquet Céleste by Olivier Messiaen.