The Lover of Light

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Country:Sudan

Director:Sarah Gubara

Program:Eastern Parallels

Year: 
2001

Duration: 
60

Summary:

This film uses a strong metaphor which is highly suggestive of the circumstances of Gudallah Gubara himself with reference to Gubara’s interest in bringing things to light socially as well as through the practice of film compounded by Gubara’s ensuing blindness. But Sarah Gubara centers her film on the efforts of a self driven activist who attempts to rally people in the fight for freedom. The activisit discovers that the more freedom you attempt to claim, the more assuredly it shall be taken away from you. He learns that the only way to express himself is indirectly, much as the writers or filmmakers have learned to do, in order to communicate in a way that allows people the opportunity for enlightenment.