The Youssef Chahine Podcast No. 17: Cairo As Seen By Chahine

An appreciation of Chahine's short but great Cairo as Seen By Chahine. We discuss the film's self-reflexiveness. How its aware of framing, composition, Foreign expectations, relations and obligations concerning style and subject matter. How to film and evoke a city? How to do it with respect and love for its inhabitants? How to politely warn about dangers around and dangers ahead and how to understand what drives desperate people there. We could have had a much longer discussion. But then, it would have been longer than the film.