The film mainly borrows its aesthetics from 1930s-1940s film noir and melodrama: to build tension through the craft of narrative filmmaking (with all its conventions regarding the uses of cinematography, art direction and blocking) without succumbing to its tendency to gravitate towards an ultimate, humanistic meaning. Desires float, suspend and frustrate themselves without generating any obvious emotional climax.
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Rant
Developed through a series of intense workshops with an actress, the film investigates the psyche of an unspecified cultural operator – perhaps critic -
Doors of Fear: El Naddaha
Doors of Fear is the first horror drama series in the Arab world. Dealing with different folkloric tales of horror from the Egyptian culture, the… -
The A77A Project
The work is a 2-D and 3-D animation of a figure of the ancient gods, Anubis. A figure that dwells in the streets of urban… -
Revolution
An experimental screen is split into the three colors of the flag – Red, White and Black – which represent the three promises of the… -
In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein)
Idler Sein’s perambulations become a layered declaration of love to the city of Cairo. Shot before, but edited after the Egyptian revolution.
Film details
- Country of production
- Egypt
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 20'
- Medium/Format
- File
