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Following Out Revolution’s Loose Ends

  • December 13, 2013
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Acclaimed filmmaker Ahmad Abdalla discusses his third feature film, “Rags and Tatters“, a meditation on the margin’s of Egypt’s revolution that recently earned rave reviews in Cairo.

What was your inspiration?

In the first days of the revolution I was volunteering with the “media tent” [in Tahrir Square] to collect footage from anyone who had managed to film any violence, which we gave away to networks and TV stations. When I started to look into this footage, I found there were many stories people just kept for themselves, and no one stopped and asked what had happened to those people. One was a 20-second clip, very violent, leaked from an Egyptian prison. And I thought, I will use this as the beginning, and invent the rest.

On TV the revolution looked so collective, but your film is about isolation.

This was my main feeling when I went into Tahrir Square. Yes, we were all chanting, yet I felt very isolated, and I was sure the moment Mubarak stepped down we wouldn’t be one solid being as we were. There was always a louder voice of the crowd, but I wanted to give this [protagonist] his own voice, and he’s not talking. So the film is just following this guy: I wanted people just to be on his side.

When you translate thoughts and feelings into words, people start to judge. But I wanted to go two or three steps back and ask the first questions: why did we go to the streets in the first place and what will happen to this guy? Why and what do we have to change?

For more info – www.ahmadabdalla.net

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Jennifer MacKenzie

Poet, writer and teacher Jennifer MacKenzie grew up on Bloomcrest Dr. in Bloomfield Hills, MI, which inspired her to wonder about places with patterns other than floral. Following her education at Wesleyan University's College of Letters and the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, she followed a zig-zag course that included a pilgrimage across the top of Spain and a long sojourn in Syria in pursuit of the language of Muhammad al-Maghout and Moudthaffar al-Nawwab. While in Damascus she completed the books of poems "Distant City" and "My Not-My Soldier" (forthcoming from Fence Books) and edited the magazine Syria Today. Her poems and essays can be found in numerous journals including the Kenyon Review online, Guernica, Quarterly West, and Lungfull. She currently lives in New York.

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