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Step by Step
(Khutwa Khutwa) by Oussama Mohammad (Syria, 1978, 22 minutes, B&W, DigiBeta PAL and DV-Cam NTSC)
Synopsis
Each day children trudge the muddied village paths to go to school, but as Step by Step makes painfully clear, their only real escape from crushing poverty is to join the army. A frightening, captivating and insightful portrait of how the Baath regime transformed generations of peasants into citizen-soldiers and sent the poor in droves to provincial cities as migrant laborers. This short film was Mohammad's graduation project at the VGIK film school and foretells his cinematic style and thematic obsession with the language of violence in society. The original print has been restored and digitized, and subtitled in English especially for this program.
Credits
Directed by Oussama Mohammad
Camera: Hanna Ward
Music: Abdellatif Abdul-Hamid
Print Source
Oussama Mohammad
C/o Proaction Film
Contact: Diana el-Jeiroudi
P. O. Box: 60353, Damascus, SYRIA
Tel & Fax: + 963 11 232 0 252 / 232 0 373
E-mail: diana@proactionfilm.com
Web Site: www.proactionfilm.com
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