Friday 29 May 2009, 18:00-21:00pm
point gallery space
Fairfax - VA
BAB TUMA - old city damascus
7 min short film
Synopsis
Bab Tuma is a 7 minutes short experimental video based on cinematic essay that reconstructs the childhood memory relayed through the family’s female bodies.
It’s the story of my mother’s parent’s house where we spent most of our summer as children vacating with our grand mother. 7 years of unpaid rent, this captivating old city Damascus ballade in the Christian quarter through the GATE of THOMAS (BAB=DOOR TUMA=THOMAS) once called GATE OF VENUS during the roman empire reveals the story of these women’s struggle to preserve the property: the family treasure, my grandmothers’ villa.
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