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The hourlong experimental documentary “Erēmīta (Anthologies)” is a collection of short films made by cinematographers from around the world, each having been tasked by Egyptian American filmmaker Sam Abbas, as curator, with one key creative restriction: cellphone cameras only, no added lenses or devices. The impetus was itself an overarching constraint this was March of 2020, when the pandemic had everybody in quarantine.
The shorts run the gamut from the avant-garde/impressionistic like Soledad Rodríguez’s “The Eagle and the Snake,” shot through what appears to be a tube to the observed, typically defined by a sense of being inside looking out. (The overall title translates as “hermit.”) American indie DP Ashley Connor’s “A Well Watered Woman” offers up a jaggedly edited bath starring her own body in close-up fragments, while Rome-based cinematographer Stefano Falivene (“Point of View”) contrasts the majesty of the ancient Coliseum (not a bad walki
Kristof: These women confront dictators. Why can t we?
Feb. 19, 2021
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Women like Tawakkol Karman, center, a Yemeni woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership during the Arab Spring, has charted a course the U.S. should follow.John McConnico /AP
Goons with clubs and machetes had established a makeshift checkpoint outside Tahrir Square in Cairo to beat pro-democracy protesters, and my heart sank when I saw the thugs intercept two frail women and menace them.
But the women, sisters named Minna and Amal, stood their ground that day during the Arab Spring a decade ago. I stepped forward to interview the women and also the thugs, who were holding straight razors and clubs with nails embedded; with violence oddly on pause for a joint interview, I asked Minna and Amal why they risked so much to seek political rights.