Captivated by the work of Len Lye and Stan Brakhage Ali created a series of sketchbook-style films exploring gesture and signal.

The first two of dots and dashes were simply hand engraved and painted directly onto 16mm film, flickering beside fingerprints and strands of hair. The audible Morse code spells out Can you hear me? Can you hear me? I’m still tapping. A signal transmitting from voice to code, leaving traces of touch and persistence.

Additional films started to include typography and experiments that captured the residue and markings of breath and speech directly on to film.

The abstract animations were projected onto the large Electric Window of The Lux Gallery, Hoxton Square, London exhibited outward into the city at night (2000)