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Laws of Ruins

Marianne Fahmy

Laws of Ruins explores the history of water within a parafictional paradigm, positioning water cisterns as possible symbols for resistance and reformation. In the film, Fahmy layers a poetic voice over to archival and original footage. The voice over features excerpts from the memoirs of Arwa Saleh, a prominent communist Egyptian female activist in the radical student movement of the 1970s. The film considers the intersections between memory and ecology, positing demolished sites as sites of memory that can, through collective remembrance, gesture us towards alternative futures.
Country: Egypt
Time: 14
Year: 2024