Huda Takriti



  1. It Is Always Midnight In Their Minds
  2. Anatomy of an Endless Scene
  3. On Another Note
  4. Revisitation. In Three Acts
  5. Clarity is the Closest Wound to the Sun
  6. Notes on/for a Film
  7. Fluid Grounds (Video)
  8. Fluid Grounds
  9. Against Nostalgia
  10. Refusing to Meet Your Eye
  11. Of Cities and Private Living Rooms
  12. Les Yeux Dans Les Yeux
  13. The Euphoric Nights in Vienna: Here and Elsewhere
  14. Starry Nights
  15. A Storytelling; I only wish I could be there...

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It Is Always Midnight In Their Minds


Still, It Is Always Midnight In Their Minds, Video, 16’40”, 4k, Color, Black&White, Sound, 2026

It Is Always Midnight In Their Minds traces the interest of Italy’s National Oil Company (ENI) in decolonial liberation movements during the 1950s and 1960s, particularly in recently independent or decolonised countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Iran and Algeria. Alongside industrial films promoting oil infrastructure, the company’s archive preserves the script of an unrealised film project titled Un dio nero, un diavolo bianco, written by Jacques-Laurent Bost, Franco Solinas and Sergio Spina, with the narrative outline attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre.

Taking this unfinished project as a starting point, the film reflects on the intersections between anti-colonial politics, corporate ambition and cultural production in post-war Italy. The work examines the role of ENI in what was called “The Big Africa Project” and the neo-colonial strategies implemented by the oil industry to sustain their extractive infrastructures in previous colonies.

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Stills, It Is Always Midnight In Their Minds, Video, 16’40”, 4k, Color, Black&White, Sound, 2026