Release Date
2003-01-01
Status
Released
Original Title
Allahu Akbar
Runtime
6 min
Original Language
AR
Production Countries
Iraq, United States of America
Production Companies
Crawl Space Production
Overview
Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.
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