The City by Ghayath Almadhoun and What Gas by Marie Silkeberg
On 26 June, 2014 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments
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Poet: Ghayath Almadhoun, Marie Silkeberg | Nationality: Palestine, Sweden, Syria | Filmmaker: Ghayath Almadhoun, Marie Silkeberg
This innovative videopoem about the destruction of Damascus, The City, alternates lines from a poem by Ghayath Almadhoun, translated from Arabic by Catherine Cobham and read by female voices, and a poem by Marie Silkeberg, translated from Swedish by Frank Perry and read by male voices. The readers are people from the streets of Stockholm. Silkeberg composed the sound montage and Almadhoun the montage of found footage from the internet. He mentioned in a recent interview that the film has been screened in more than 150 festivals.
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