Shalal

A boy and his mother don’t have a shadow. To have shadow, they eat other people’s shadows. One day, boy decides to get a shadow alone./•Due to my fear of looking at people, I used to look at their feet and shadows most of the time in my teenage period. And unintentionally, I found inner ways to communicate with them. That would cause me to visualize them in my mind, instead of directly communicating. For example, what is their voice like? Or if I have a conversation or a relationship with them, what will it look like? These situations lasted for years. And my relationship with most of the people I didn’t know was based neither on their appearance nor their voice, but on the construction I had of their shadow.
• To understand its roots and the roots of sounds, I returned to the place where I was born. And I put the character where I had experienced it myself. There are two methods of treating the deformed in Hormozgan, one is hot skin, which is cured by heating and throwing the skin of a black goat. And the ZAR ceremony, which is for the treatment of those who have incurable physical and mental illnesses, or are generally believed to be possessed by demons or wind. I used it as an entrance to the mind of someone who cannot see his shadow. For someone who cannot have a direct relationship with social reality.
• And to connect these situations, I thought that if the character wants to have a real connection with the shadow one day. What does that, the idea of taking and drinking the shadow was formed in the Shalal.

Categories: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery