“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”
Movie / 2007
Movie / 2008
Movie / 2014
Movie / 2003
Movie / 1999
Movie / 2005
Movie / 2010
Movie / 2009
Movie / 2002
Movie / 2005
Movie / 2007
Movie / 2010
Movie / 2008
Movie / 2009
Movie / 2004
Movie / 2010
Movie / 2023
Movie / 2018
Movie / 2008
“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”
Movie / 2007
Movie / 2008
Movie / 2014
Movie / 2003
Movie / 1999
Movie / 2005
Movie / 2010
Movie / 2009
Movie / 2002
Movie / 2005
Movie / 2007
Movie / 2010
Movie / 2008
Movie / 2009
Movie / 2004
Movie / 2010
Movie / 2023
Movie / 2018
Movie / 2008