Safaa Fathy | |
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صفاء فتحي | |
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Nationality | Egyptian |
Occupation(s) | Poet, documentary filmmaker, playwright and essayist |
Website | http://safaafathy.org/en/ |
Safaa Fathy (born July 17, 1958) is an Egyptian poet, documentary filmmaker, playwright, and essayist. She is best known for her film Derrida's Elsewhere, a documentary that focuses on the life and concepts of controversial philosopher Jacques Derrida.
Fathy was born in Minya, Upper Egypt, on July 17, 1958. She studied English literature in Cairo. Fathy participated in the student movement while in Egypt but later left the country and settled in Paris in 1981. In 1987, she was an assistant director at the Deutsches Theater located in East Berlin. Fathy worked with Heiner Muller in 1990. [1] She completed her doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne in 1993; [2] her thesis was on Bertolt Brecht. Before becoming a filmmaker, Fathy worked as a stage director. [1]
Currently she serves as director of programme at the International College of Philosophy in Paris. [2]
In an interview that explores how Fathy uses film editing to construct her narrative, examining her choices in pacing, juxtaposition, and the use of archival footage or other visual elements, "Cutting" may also refer to the way Fathy confronts historical trauma and the fragmentation of memory. [3]
Ordalie; Terreur (2004, ISBN 9782872823796)
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