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Film · 2021 · 15 min

Al-Atlal

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Synopsis

A drawing of an ancient bathhouse in a French travel book to the Middle East sparks a visual poem, inspired by the Arab poetry tradition of "standing by the ruins". The ambivalence of the five-hundred-year-old image gestures towards enduring capitalist and colonial power dynamics. Pleasure and pain, seduction and domination, archives and ruins, histories of sex, and histories of empire, all commingle in this essay film. What transpires is a web of visible and invisible threads where homosexuality in the Middle East today seems to be enmeshe

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Réalisation
Raed Rafei
Sortie
9 septembre 2021
Statut
Released
Pays
Lebanon, United States of America
Durée
15 min

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