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Ma'a al-Fidda Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait [videorecording]= Wiam Bedirxan Ossama Mohammed

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Arabic Summary language: French Original language: Arabic Subtitle language: French Publication details: 2015 France Les Films d'Ici Proaction FilmDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait
  • Eau argentée, Syrie autoportrait
Uniform titles:
  • Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .M330 2014
Summary: From case cover: En Syrie, des Youtubeurs filment et meurent tous les jours. A Paris, Ossama Mohammed ne peut que filmer le ciel et monter ces images youtube, guidé par son amour indéfectible de la Surie. De cette distance avec son pays et la révolution est née une recontre. Simav, une jeune cinéaste Kurde de Homs l'a «Tchaté» : «Si ta caméra était ici à Homs que filmerais-tu?» Le film est l'histoire de ce partage. A la fois film engagé et manifeste poétique, cette œuvre protéiforme nous plonge comme rarement dans les affres de la guerre et questionne la possibilité de sa représentation. From IMDb: In Syria, everyday, YouTubers film then die; others kill then film. In Paris, driven by my inexhaustible love for Syria, I find that I can only film the sky and edit the footage posted. From within the tension between my estrangement in France and the revolution, an encounter happened. A young Kurdish woman from Homs began to chat with me, asking: 'If your camera were here, in Homs, what would you be filming?'. Silvered Water is the story of that encounter.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
DVD - Video DVD - Video SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-C: DVD Cabinet C PN1997 .M330 2014 Available Arabic audio. Optional French subtitles. 001408

From case cover:
En Syrie, des Youtubeurs filment et meurent tous les jours. A Paris, Ossama Mohammed ne peut que filmer le ciel et monter ces images youtube, guidé par son amour indéfectible de la Surie. De cette distance avec son pays et la révolution est née une recontre. Simav, une jeune cinéaste Kurde de Homs l'a «Tchaté» : «Si ta caméra était ici à Homs que filmerais-tu?» Le film est l'histoire de ce partage.

A la fois film engagé et manifeste poétique, cette œuvre protéiforme nous plonge comme rarement dans les affres de la guerre et questionne la possibilité de sa représentation.
From IMDb:
In Syria, everyday, YouTubers film then die; others kill then film. In Paris, driven by my inexhaustible love for Syria, I find that I can only film the sky and edit the footage posted. From within the tension between my estrangement in France and the revolution, an encounter happened. A young Kurdish woman from Homs began to chat with me, asking: 'If your camera were here, in Homs, what would you be filming?'. Silvered Water is the story of that encounter.

DVD video, Dolby Digital; stereo; PAL; Region 2; 16:9 widescreen.

Arabic audio. Optional French subtitles.
(Cataloguer's note: DVD case notes dialogue as being "Syrian", whereas IMDb notes it as being "Arabic". Based off of the "Languages of Syria" Wikipedia entry, I believe the dialogue to be South Syrian Arabic. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Syria])

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