{"id":41,"date":"2007-02-02T23:32:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T22:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/?p=41"},"modified":"2022-04-18T19:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:58:18","slug":"baghdad-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/baghdad-fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad Fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filmessay (42\u2019)
\nPremiere Diagonale 2007<\/h3>\n

Shortly before the war began the writer Susanne Ayoub made a journey to Baghdad in order to find her family. It was her first encounter with the country where she was born since the day she left it as a six year old child with her mother.<\/p>\n

BAGHDAD FRAGMENT.
\nEnountering Memory.<\/h3>\n

The Sky above Baghdad
\nBelongs to the stars
\nTo the birds
\nTo the wind.
\nNot zu aeroplanes.
\nThe sky above Baghdad
\nIs a poem.\"baghdadfragment-fischer-shat-el-arab\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Susanne Ayoub tells about five days of her journey with the international soliarity delegation and about forty years of a family, about love, separation and death. With her film project \u201cBorn in Baghdad\u201d that she started in 2002, she failed. The film material shot without permission and under a lot of trouble stayed fragmentary.<\/p>\n

March, 24th, 2002. Two journeys begin. I will accompany the Solidarity Delegation into Iraq. To visit Hospitals, Schools, Kindergardens. To report about a country after 12 years of UNO emgargo.<\/p>\n

The second journey leads me to the past. I was six years old when my mother left Iraq with me. This is the first time that I am coming back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"baghdadfragment-ayoub-baghdad\"<\/a><\/em>In the meantime the Iraq that she visited in 2002 has disappeared just like the land of her childhood. Four years later she finished a film which shows the fragments of what she wanted to film, the impossibility of showing it.<\/em><\/p>\n

The past is the memory of a child.
\nThe woman who returns is a stranger.
\nThe journey’s destiny is a placed that does not exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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DIRECTOR\u2019S STATEMENT<\/h3>\n

<\/h3>\n

\"baghdadfragment<\/a>To a rough shaking video shots of my research in 2002 I added the poetic sequences of an old Super8 films made in the children days in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n

Baghdad Fragment uses no off-voice to explain. You only find original sound and music, the songs of the Iraqi singer Juliette Manssour. Word is just in the pictures, as intermitting text.<\/em><\/p>\n

The pictures of war are allday-present in TV. My film gives a different image of Iraq. The personal story gives the audience a chance to discover the people who live in this country.<\/em><\/p>\n

Has man roots. Is there any voice of blood. What is home.<\/em><\/p>\n

These questions lead out of the individual. They stand exemplarious for emigration and the search for identiy.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"baghdadfragment-kinder\"<\/a>DVD+CD \u201eBaghdad Fragments\u201c,
\nProduction ORF with Trio Art Team 2008<\/p>\n

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\"baghdadfragment-bodenmosaik-bushkopf\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The longing I take with me.
\nIt will remain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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