What Goes Up

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What Goes Up

What Goes Up
Samar Al Summary
International Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Saudi Arabia,
USA
2024
29 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English
European premiere

The aeroplanes are stationary, nothing moves, nothing takes off at the US military airbase in Arizona – until a young woman in a white dress begins to jump on a trampoline outside the fence, framed by an idyllic sunset. She conveys her story from the silent offscreen – only through subtitles. Having come from Saudi Arabia, she is stuck in the US because her father stole her identity papers. So homesick that she is considering drastic measures to get back home, she almost enlists in the military. But the US Army is suspicious and would not station her, a risk factor, anywhere near the Middle East. But there is a Baghdad in Arizona, too …
Artist Samar Al Summary’s work is an investigation into systems of power. She does not only talk about herself, the prejudices and obstacles she faces as a Saudi woman, but also about the crash of two Iraqi air force pilots who were to be trained by the US Air Force but never made it home either. In her dramatically condensed film essay, she takes up the symbolic fight – both against gravity, which she can at least temporarily defy by using cinematic means, and against patriarchy. The latter, however, is not so easy to fight.


Borjana Gaković

Photosensitivity warning: Contains flashes of light that may trigger seizures for people with visual sensitivities.

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31.10.
#462
Passage Kinos Astoria
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31.10.2024
Passage Kinos Astoria
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01.11.
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CineStar 6
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CineStar 6
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03.11.
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Cinémathèque in der Nato
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03.11.2024
Cinémathèque in der Nato
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Director
Samar Al Summary
Cinematographer
Samar Al Summary
Producer
Samar Al Summary

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Samar Al Summary
netpaige@gmail.com
Nominated for: Silver Dove
Winner of: Silver Dove Short Film (International Competition Documentary Film)