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Survival signs

  • Survival signs
Type : Film essay
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1998
Format : Short
Running time : 13 (in minutes)

This work deals with the problem of language as an organ of taste, cause of the loss of paradise and instrument of language. It leasd men to build the Tower of Babel to reach heaven and surpass God. Efter which God punished them by destroying their unity. By using electronic language, echographical and televised images, Survival signs dismantles the loss of the power of understanding and communication of language. As an example, the video presents the fight for survival or Iraqi children deprived of food - a way of cutting off their tongues. And what forbidden fruit had they tasted ? What language would we like them to speak ? That of having or that or being ? Or, do we simply hope that they die without uttering a word ?

Dir. Mounir Fatmi

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Partners

  • Kenya : Arterial Network chapter
  • Kenya : Ketebul Music
  • Kenya : Studio Vista Network
  • Kenya : Kuona Trust
  • Kenya : The Theatre Company

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