the dance, the body, the trapeze, the woman. a movement creating space, a space that is then re-created as the body of a city. images that return us to the body, its time and movements... allow the eye to reattach itself to the bodies sense. Oscillating between the voyeurism of the eye observing the body (reminding us fo the mediation of the camera) and a rhythmic collapse of distance, into a dance in which the eye grows legs and we swing through the air into the dreams of childhood.
...a woman, captured by camera through door ajar, leans to adjust her clothing in what one might consider rooms behind a theatre stage. Magnificent. Of all life, all moments of shadow and light, this was held so perfectly. Then waves. It doesn't need reason to exist.
A hauntingly beautiful piece of filmic art. The images rendered in positive and negative are beautifully juxtaposed against an evocative Debussy score. The city looms as a dreamscape drawing the viewer's imagination in polysemic engagement.
A beautiful haunting dreamlike film that creates a powerful bond between the watcher and the watched...those that witness and those that do...and the possibilities and desires that lie within us all...a film that seems to float somewhere between the past and the future. I loved it.
While problematizing the voyeuristic gaze of the camera, the filmmaker navigates with great comfort between different genres: silent, noir,documentary, and musical. Skillfully, he escapes the conventional modes of production to offer a hybrid film that is very artistic and symbolically charged.
Really enjoyed use of historical footage, dialectical montage and music to create mood and atmosphere and communicate something uplifting about the power of spectacle. Bravo!
How very beautiful visually and aurally but also troubling in the overpowering solitude of these figures. Only in the final image is a real connection between individuals made. Otherwise, we watch, along with the others, the heart-stopping high wire acts of these spinning women. Wonderfully evocative and thought provoking!
-Congratulations. "The Film" challenges the logic and narratives of so many commercial films that often bore with their predictable, emotional immaturity. Instead, this nine minute "Film" as a cinematographic poem takes one deeper into a more visceral experience that is risky by its absence of clear narrative or "story" and its presence of memory created by gorgeous music, lyricism, and sheer imagery to lead the viewer to his or her own cherished meanings of love and memory. Thank you...
What a stupendous, mesmerizing film! I've had the distinct pleasure of watching it on the big screen. Don't miss such an opportunity if it presents itself to you.
There is a certain beauty and ephemeral quality to this film. I really enjoyed the progression of images from concrete reality to dream state and back again.
Beautiful melange of scene!! Great choice of vintage clips!!
oohadoh 1 year ago
the dance, the body, the trapeze, the woman. a movement creating space, a space that is then re-created as the body of a city. images that return us to the body, its time and movements... allow the eye to reattach itself to the bodies sense. Oscillating between the voyeurism of the eye observing the body (reminding us fo the mediation of the camera) and a rhythmic collapse of distance, into a dance in which the eye grows legs and we swing through the air into the dreams of childhood.
erindawn22 1 year ago
...a woman, captured by camera through door ajar, leans to adjust her clothing in what one might consider rooms behind a theatre stage. Magnificent. Of all life, all moments of shadow and light, this was held so perfectly. Then waves. It doesn't need reason to exist.
What a film.
MedlyofThorns 1 year ago
A hauntingly beautiful piece of filmic art. The images rendered in positive and negative are beautifully juxtaposed against an evocative Debussy score. The city looms as a dreamscape drawing the viewer's imagination in polysemic engagement.
wobeeman 1 year ago
A beautiful haunting dreamlike film that creates a powerful bond between the watcher and the watched...those that witness and those that do...and the possibilities and desires that lie within us all...a film that seems to float somewhere between the past and the future. I loved it.
wraaum 1 year ago
A beautiful poem. The music is a particularly powerful part of the film for me.
kentbares 1 year ago
While problematizing the voyeuristic gaze of the camera, the filmmaker navigates with great comfort between different genres: silent, noir,documentary, and musical. Skillfully, he escapes the conventional modes of production to offer a hybrid film that is very artistic and symbolically charged.
001IMED 1 year ago
The determination to continue the journey, persistently move forward, and renew
this vanishing curiosity and desire to find love appear to be dominant
themes in this film. Beyond the circularity of time and its constraints,
the scenes convey a straight forward movement expressed through the sky,
open space, water, birds, freefall, and dance.
001IMED 1 year ago
Clearly an existential journey that probes into the deepest layers of a
dream –like experience, imagination, emotional malaise, and impossible
reconciliation between these fragmented moments within the dream.
001IMED 1 year ago
Really enjoyed use of historical footage, dialectical montage and music to create mood and atmosphere and communicate something uplifting about the power of spectacle. Bravo!
moremangosteen 1 year ago
How very beautiful visually and aurally but also troubling in the overpowering solitude of these figures. Only in the final image is a real connection between individuals made. Otherwise, we watch, along with the others, the heart-stopping high wire acts of these spinning women. Wonderfully evocative and thought provoking!
jkilde 1 year ago
purposeful misrepresentations of nobility
grahamwjohnson 1 year ago
Nice piece. I like how you take what Connor did in 'A Movie' back when and twist it towards a more personal end.
thigMoVid 1 year ago
I enjoyed this film.
billygolfus 1 year ago
-Congratulations. "The Film" challenges the logic and narratives of so many commercial films that often bore with their predictable, emotional immaturity. Instead, this nine minute "Film" as a cinematographic poem takes one deeper into a more visceral experience that is risky by its absence of clear narrative or "story" and its presence of memory created by gorgeous music, lyricism, and sheer imagery to lead the viewer to his or her own cherished meanings of love and memory. Thank you...
richardsolly 1 year ago
What a stupendous, mesmerizing film! I've had the distinct pleasure of watching it on the big screen. Don't miss such an opportunity if it presents itself to you.
mohannadghawanmeh 1 year ago
A beautiful film. It really communicates with the Debussy.
keerilmakan 1 year ago
Enchanting. Even my 2 year old son stayed put and in awe for 8 whole minutes watching it !
mroussou 1 year ago
This is very beautiful, Hisham. Thanks for sharing!
shawnmillernyc 1 year ago
Dear Hisham. It is really wonderful work. Keep doing , and congratulation . Your, Amir
ahamdani1000 1 year ago
This is beautiful. I keep coming back to this. The figure of the filmmaker is disturbing and compelling at the same time. It is lyrical.
plarash 1 year ago
There is a certain beauty and ephemeral quality to this film. I really enjoyed the progression of images from concrete reality to dream state and back again.
mojuma1 1 year ago
I am mesmerized by the imagery in this film.
siobhanmallard 1 year ago