Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Mohanad Yaqubi | 8 minutes

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Rico in the night

Mohanad Yaqubi 2001 fiction 8 min.

This short video$ art collaboration between Yaqubi and French dancer
choreographer Jean Gaudin is evidence of a new standard and style of video
art production being undertaken in the West Bank. Yaqubi places Gaudin's
enigmatic character Rico in the heart of a Ramallah night, setting the
dancer's staccato movements against a back of the nocturnal city's
hospitals, empty market places, family homes, and refugee camp alleyways.
Neither narrative nor entirely abstract, this is a mood piece in which Rico
takes the audience on a surreal whirlwind tour of a city as close to sleep
as it ever gets.

Full feature: https://vimeo.com/5319516

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