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The Ruins (2021)

The Ruins

Subtitles for: 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

GenreDocumentary
Duration0h 15m
CountryLebanon, United States of America
Release09 Sept 2021
LanguageEN
DirectorRaed Rafei
Keywordshammamessay filmexperimental
TypeMovie Released
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