The Ghost ( Le Corbusier in Baghdad )

The Ghost was filmed in Baghdad inside the Gymnasium designed by Le Corbusier in the late 1950s and completed decades later under Saddam Hussein. Conceived as part of a larger modernist project for Iraq, the building now appears as a spectral monument: both present and displaced, functional and haunted by the histories that have passed through it.

The film observes this architecture not as a fixed heritage object, but as a living ruin - a space where utopian modernism, political power, and contemporary Iraqi realities coexist. Through slow images of the building, its surfaces, its light, and its emptiness, The Ghost reflects on the afterlife of modern forms, and on the way monuments continue to speak long after the ideologies that produced them have disappeared.