The Ruins (2021)
15m
Running Time
September 9, 2021Release Date
The Ruins (2021)
15m
Running Time
September 9, 2021Release Date
Plot.
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
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Release DateSeptember 9, 2021
Original NameAl-Atlal
StatusReleased
Running Time15m
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gay interest
essay
hammam
experimental