fatalism: Gh0st I

肉体は朽ちても魂は漂い、命の夢を見続ける : Even if the body decays, the ghost roams free, dreaming about life

Artist and composer Salem Rashid Skourlis, also known as fatalism, celebrates the release of his debut album Gh0st with a short film directed by the Tokyo-based filmmaker Tatsuya Fujimoto. 

Written and produced entirely by fatalism, Gh0st explores desolation, mystical encounters, and the intricate processing of the human psyche's trauma and the perennial fear of mortality. Through apparitions and contours and hollows that dissolve and transform, the film serves as a haunting visual for a single-off of the project.

“Gh0st I” turns landscapes and fleeting images of decay inside out, presenting a tapestry of ghostly continuities and mutations. “My approach to my work has always been to create and enter portals to an/other world for answers to our physical dimension,” explained fatalism. 

“In the process of conceiving the album I treated each recording session as a sacred ritual, a means to become lost in the sonic abyss. It is within this labyrinthine realm that we uncover the purest and most profound sensations, those that beckon us towards the mystical, the true source of enlightenment and understanding.”

“Through Gh0st, we traverse the liminal spaces of our own minds, chasing the spectral echoes of our innermost experiences, and in that pursuit, we glimpse the elusive answers that dwell beyond our corporeal reality.”

The album’s cryptic yet alluring narrative is brought to life through the visual storytelling of Tatsuya Fujimoto, a close collaborator of Skourlis’ label Bedouin Records. Over the course of making the film, he found himself immersed in notions of existence itself - imageries of abysses, rebirth, and parallel dimensions.