The Ruins

The Ruins

2021
15m
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Overview

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

Status: Released

Language: EN

Production Information

Production Countries
Lebanon United States of America
Spoken Languages
Arabic

Keywords

hammam essay film experimental

Quick Facts

Original Title Al-Atlal
Release Date September 9, 2021
Status Released
Language EN

Cast

Key Crew

Raed Rafei
Writer
Raed Rafei
Director
Raed Rafei
Producer