Movie
The Ruins
0.0/10
2021
0h 15m
en
Documentary
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
Director
Raed Rafei
Writers
Raed Rafei
Movie Information
Release Date
September 9, 2021
Runtime
0h 15m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
