Visual Artist Roee Morag is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘Broken Cinema Dreams’. To see Roee’s body of work, click on any photograph.

This series explores the tension between cinematic memory and photography as a medium. It began with an exploration of abstraction in photography, experimenting with materials such as cellophane under colored light to create dynamic, vibrant compositions.

Inspired by my deep love for cinema, I became intrigued by the idea of integrating these abstract images with figurative elements from classic films. To achieve this, I projected and re-photographed frames from films, primarily from the 1920s to the 1940s, casting them onto a large, curved surface. The distortion of the projections reshaped the original imagery, altering its proportions and visual language. These re-photographed frames were then digitally layered with the earlier abstract compositions, allowing the two visual worlds to merge.

Through photomontage techniques, Broken Cinema Dreams deconstructs and reassembles cinematic history, questioning how visual memories transform over time. Once-recognizable film scenes dissolve into layers of color, light, and form, distancing them from their original narrative. This fragmentation reflects the way collective visual memories shift and evolve within personal perception.

In this series, photography, cinema, and collage converge, breaking apart and reconfiguring moments from film history into a newly imagined visual space.

Artist Bio

Roee Morag is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across photography, painting, drawing, video, sound, and collage. His work moves fluidly between mediums, exploring the instability of memory and the shifting language of images. Photographs become raw material, layered with paint, projection, and light, re-imagined rather than preserved.

Painting and drawing expand this language, creating surfaces where gestural freedom meets compositional precision. Morag’s pieces often suggest rather than describe, inviting viewers into visual spaces that remain open and unstable.

Art has accompanied Morag since childhood. Early interests in drawing and music shaped his creative voice, and his studies in contemporary art deepened his engagement with image-making. He is currently based in Rome, where he is pursuing studies at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti. Influences include Francesca Woodman, Gerhard Richter, Marina Abramović, and Tracey Emin. Over the past eight years, Morag has developed a practice centered on transformation, layering, and the collision of mediums, exploring how fragments of memory and image evolve over time.

All images and text © Roee Morag