The film is based on the filmmakers’ real encounter with an unknown European, one night in a bar in Beirut in 2017. It was a man on the road to join the Kurdish militia fighting in the war against the Islamic state on the territory of Syria. The conversation was secretly recorded on a cellphone and serves as the script for animated modeled situations and reconstructions of that night. The film is a formal polemic on the apparent authenticity of the documentary and the possibilities of representation of reality by means of simulations and modeled situations.
- Year2019
- Runtime24 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine, Egypt
- PremiereU.S. Premiere
- FilmmakerNoor Abed & Mark Lotfy
The film is based on the filmmakers’ real encounter with an unknown European, one night in a bar in Beirut in 2017. It was a man on the road to join the Kurdish militia fighting in the war against the Islamic state on the territory of Syria. The conversation was secretly recorded on a cellphone and serves as the script for animated modeled situations and reconstructions of that night. The film is a formal polemic on the apparent authenticity of the documentary and the possibilities of representation of reality by means of simulations and modeled situations.
- Year2019
- Runtime24 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryPalestine, Egypt
- PremiereU.S. Premiere
- FilmmakerNoor Abed & Mark Lotfy