Makkah, The City that Never Sleeps …

Makkah is a fundamental element in my identity. I was born in Mecca, and I fell in love with the holiest city of Islam. Those places where I have always cherished played, laughed, smiled. Through the ages, Mecca has undergone vast improvements. I want to tell the story of Makkah from my perspective.

In this short generative film, I am trying to narrate a moment that does not exist in history. It looks like a historical abstract time-lapse of the Kaaba, which remains constant at the centre while everything is changing around it. Everything around was an essential part one day and dramatically changed through time in how it stretched in and out. It makes the invisible moment of temporal transfiguration visible through the enormous number of data sets generated.

The model interpolates information to help it create a moving, shifting image that represents the entire life cycle of Makkah from many perspectives and multiple angles at different times of the year. It could be an honest memory for a machine to create an alternative reality.