Love teaches me not to love

Aiub. Ioug. Ayub. Ainou. Aiou. I had the same difficulty pronouncing his Arabic name as understanding that our love wasn't possible in an impossible world. This name came to destroy, in a way, my West.

Initially, this project was intended to save a man in a vulnerable situation, and for that man to save me from loneliness. I made a trip to Tangier (Morocco) to find him, marry him, give him my papers as a Europeanized South American, and create a new work based on that.

But Ayoub appeared, and the project collapsed. His name ("the returnee" or "the repentant") is very popular in Islamic countries: 615 children of that name were killed by the Zionist state of Israel in the Gaza Strip.

For those dead, I name this work after you, which speaks of you, of colonialism, of Palestine.

And everything I want to kill inside me.

Marina Otero

Artistic sheet

Text y direction: Marina Otero

Interpreters: Ibrahim Ibnou Goush & Marina Otero

Camera: Florencia de Mugica

Technical coordination and tour technician: Giancarlo Pia Mangione

Light Design: Facundo David

Sound Design: (TBC)

Video edition: Daniela García

Text supervision: María Velasco

Collaboration: Javier Montero

Dariya Translation: Farah Hamdaoui Kadaoui

Musical arrangements: Juan Pablo de Mendonça

Photo: Andrés Manrique

General and Executive Production: Mariano de Mendonça

International distribution: Tecuatro – PTC Teatro – Otto Productions

Thanks to: Nuria Güell, Adrián Carrasco, Andrés Manrique, Somaya Taoufiki.

Duration: 65 minutes