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A drawing of an ancient bathhouse in a French travel book to the Middle East sparks a visual poem, inspired by the Arab poetry tradition of "standing by the ruins". The ambivalence of the five-hundred-year-old image gestures towards enduring capitalist and colonial power dynamics. Pleasure and pain, seduction and domination, archives and ruins, histories of sex, and histories of empire, all commingle in this essay film. What transpires is a web of visible and invisible threads where homosexuality in the Middle East today seems to be enmeshe
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2021
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20John Doe
2025-05-01, 14:32This movie exceeded my expectations, especially the ending!
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Emily Smith
2025-05-01, 15:21Great cinematography but the story felt a bit rushed.
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Liam Johnson
2025-05-02, 09:10Loved the characters, they felt very real and relatable.
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Sophia Lee
2025-05-02, 10:45Not my cup of tea. I got bored halfway through.
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Noah Brown
2025-05-02, 13:00A decent watch, though I wouldn't call it groundbreaking.
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Olivia Davis
2025-05-03, 11:37Incredible performance by the lead actor!
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William Wilson
2025-05-03, 18:05It had potential but poor writing dragged it down.
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