Mohamed Soueid, Tango of Yearning (1998)

“I wonder sometimes why many concepts and terms such as ‘reality’ and ‘authenticity’ have always been behind the fluid creativity expressed in the highlighted artistic works emerging from our region since art in general has always been the best response to all kinds of rupture imposed by oblivion.

In that sense, image could be nothing but a free, rather metaphoric, zone where memory can find its way to survival… In every film I’ve made, I was hopefully looking for the moment that revealed how much people were eager to reconstruct their own stories with their own language(s), as well as mine.”
—Mohamed Soueid