Film Synopsis: Prisoner of love is a fictitious documentary which refers to Jean Genet’s book of the same title. Jean Genet joined the Palestinian movement in the 1980s. His text marks a very specific moment in the history of left European political engagement in the so called third world. The Film follows this track and combines it with ideas from Orientalism by Edward Said and the queer self mirroring of the Artist Claude Cahun. On the traces of Jean Genet in the Middle East the film develops a little drama in the postcolonial world.

2007 - 33 min - miniDV PAL

Director/Screenplay  
Nicolas Siepen, Claudia Basrawi, Alessio Bonaccorsi
Editor
Nicolas Siepen
Camera
Nicolas Siepen, Claudia Basrawi
Music/Sound
Nicolas Siepen
Cast
Alessio Bonaccorsi, Claudia Basrawi, Nicolas Siepen, Fatima Al-Shihabi, Iyad Al-Shihabi, Azza Al-Hassan, Sharbel Bajjlli
Producer
Nicolas Siepen, Fatima Al-Shihabi
 

Festivals
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Berlinale Forum expanded; Whitechapel Gallery, London

Kataloge

AG >> Kurzfilm 2008 http://www.ag-kurzfilm.de

Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen www.kurzfilmtage.de

Distribution:

Internationale Kurzfilmtage
Oberhausen gGmbH,

Grillostraße 34, 46045 Oberhausen
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info@kurzfilmtage.de www.kurzfilmtage.de

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