Film

The Sad Song of Touha

1972 · 12m · Documentary · Music

In many ways the sister film to 'Horse of Mud', Al-Abnoudy’s graduation film at the Film School in Cairo is a portrait of Cairo’s street performers. The artistry of this community of fire-eaters, acrobats, child contortionists, and musicians is captured through the lens of Al-Abnoudy’s unobtrusive camera, accompanied by the spare and haunting narration provided by poet Abdel Rahman Al-Abnoudy. Playing with the poetry that offers image and cinema, she pays tribute to those underground enterteiners, giving back its letters of nobility to a marginalized and downgraded popular art.

• Atteyat El-AbnoudyDirector

Release date

January 1, 1972

Status

Released

Original language

Arabic

Runtime

12m

Genres

Documentary, Music