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The Ruins

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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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Released
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Language
Arabic
  • hammam
  • essay film
  • experimental

Behind the camera

Director

Raed Rafei

Writers

Raed Rafei

Produced in

Lebanon, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Digital / OTT9 Sept 2021

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The Ruins was released on 9 September 2021.

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