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The Text Allows No Interpretation

The Text Allows No Interpretation

  • Film
  • 2022
  • 10m
  • Released

The Text Allows No Interpretation is a personal essay documentary displaying the director’s conversation with his trauma in a stream of consciousness. The moments in photographs and videos are set in temporal disarray, meeting the superimposed phone calls speaking to and around the trauma from the past. The ever-present noise of repetition is created through jumps between memories of fear and death during the decade-…

  • Directing Ahmed Fouad Ragab
  • Editing Ahmed Fouad Ragab

The Text Allows No Interpretation is a personal essay documentary displaying the director’s conversation with his trauma in a stream of consciousness. The moments in photographs and videos are set in temporal disarray, meeting the superimposed phone calls speaking to and around the trauma from the past. The ever-present noise of repetition is created through jumps between memories of fear and death during the decade-old Arab Spring to insomnia and anxiety emerging through the footage of NATO military exercises on the borders of Russia.

“The Text Allows No Interpretation is a personal essay documentary displaying the director’s conversation with his trauma in a stream of consciousness.”

The Text Allows No Interpretation
  • Directing Ahmed Fouad Ragab
  • Editing Ahmed Fouad Ragab
  • Production Ahmed Fouad Ragab
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