The Visit

Produced in Syria, Iraqi director Kais al-Zubaidi's The Visit (1970) is a melancholic piece switching between on-screen texts of poems about exile and death, and chiaroscuro-lit sequences il... Read allProduced in Syria, Iraqi director Kais al-Zubaidi's The Visit (1970) is a melancholic piece switching between on-screen texts of poems about exile and death, and chiaroscuro-lit sequences illustrating a Palestinian man's attempt to cross the border and return home. Devoid of dial... Read allProduced in Syria, Iraqi director Kais al-Zubaidi's The Visit (1970) is a melancholic piece switching between on-screen texts of poems about exile and death, and chiaroscuro-lit sequences illustrating a Palestinian man's attempt to cross the border and return home. Devoid of dialogue or voice-overs and played out to the eclectic sounds of atonal strings, electronic gl... Read all