EL FILM EL MAFKOUD (THE LOST FILM) (2003)
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are active as filmmakers, artists and university instructors. Their collective oeuvre comprises books, photo and video installations, short films and one feature film. A copy of this film, entitled Around the Pink House, disappeared in Yemen in 2000 under mysterious circumstances, on precisely the tenth anniversary of the unification of North and South Yemen. Hadjithomas and Joreige became intrigued about the incident because cinema is of hardly any significance in Yemen. They began a search for the truth about what had occurred, and recorded their experiences in EL FILM EL MAFKOUD. Among other things, it reveals how the pair are confronted with the image which exists of them in Yemen, and with they status they have as Arab filmmakers.
