The first thing you might recall upon emerging from Ibrahim Nash’at’s mesmerically disturbing “Hollywoodgate” — once you’ve chipped away the ice forming over your heart — is just how little beauty it contains. This is not an idle aesthetic observation. From the large-scale industrial brutalism of the eponymous abandoned US airbase in Kabul, to a …
31/08/2023 - VENICE 2023: Ibrahim Nash’at’s doc provides a close-quarters look at the first year of the Taliban’s new regime in Afghanistan following the US withdrawal, but it can only illuminate so much