I’m thinking of Wang Bing. I’m thinking of Pedro Costa. I’m thinking of Tarkovsky’s Stalker who gets up from his bed in the morning. I’m also thinking of Good Luck, of Three Sisters. I’m thinking of a lot of directors and films, I connect the dots which seem to converge in Omar El Zohairy’s Feathers (2021). Quite a while ago, I watched El Zohairy’s absurdist short film The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometer 375 . . .

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