The Ruins (2021)
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
Director: Raed Rafei
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 15 min
Release Date: September 9, 2021
Screenplay
Editing: Raed Rafei
Country: Lebanon, United States of America
Language: العربية
Original Language: en
Keywords
hammam, essay film, experimental
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is The Ruins about?
- 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
- Who directed The Ruins?
- The Ruins was directed by Raed Rafei.
- How long is The Ruins?
- The Ruins has a runtime of 15m (15 minutes).
- What genre is The Ruins?
- The Ruins is a Documentary film.
- Where was The Ruins produced?
- The Ruins was produced in Lebanon, United States of America.