In the video 'Hiding our Faces like the Dancing Wind' (2016), Khalili presents a video that is a screen seen through a number of other screens. This interplay expose structures, operations and algorithms that become the image itself. Speaking about his work Khalili talks about how in today’s world we see images through the screen to the extent that each image takes on a life of its own – it can be shared, edited, stored etc - all within in a screen. As a result of this he has started to question the way in which images are produced, viewed and distributed.

The video also questions the use of technology and its tendency to typecast. In the video he features a woman's face captured by a camera screen, which appears to confuse the facial recognition system so that a sequence of ethnographic masks interrupts the frame. This work recalls colonial mechanisms of racial classifications and the construction of historical narratives.

More can be heard about the work in an interview with David Kim published by e-fux
https://soundcloud.com/e_flux/david-kim-and-yazan-khalili-on