Ashraf Ezzat's video: The Pyramids: Egyptian Genesis short film

Donate to help make more free videos by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat possible https://paypal.me/AshrafEzzat2020?locale.x=en_US For more visit Dr. Ashraf Ezzat’s website https://ashraf62.wordpress.com/ Download Dr. Ezzat’s latest book (Egypt knew no Pharaohs nor Israelites) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U8VK8JE?*Version*=1&*entries*=0 ‘The pyramids – Story of creation’ is my first video-art film. I had in this short film the opportunity to capture glimpses, albeit experimental, of two of my most obsessive passions, cinema and ancient Egypt. The film has been screened in a couple of international film festivals in Europe and Egypt. Through the film technique, I try to express my ideas without distracting the viewer eyes/ears with unnecessary effects and narration. Every time I’m tackling the remote history of ancient Egypt in my films and even books, I find myself confronted with the challenge of how to shift my time-machine’s gear and travel (with the viewers) thousands of years back in time. That’s why the rather slow pace of my camera is both deliberate and of major significance to me. The aim obviously is to put the viewer in a contemplative mood, which could help him view/review Egypt anew (untainted by the long legacy of Hollywood’s fake stories of mummies, pharaohs and the tremendously misinterpreted story of the Israelite Exodus) I have chosen an ancient era of antiquity for my film, where people spoke differently, ate and drank differently, fought war and made money and even made love differently. They also believed in different creation stories/myths and worshipped different deities. They perceived the world differently and may be more profoundly than modern day man does. As a matter of fact the actual story of ancient Egypt is completely different from the (Biblical) one that has been propagated for more than two thousand years. The cinema that tries to retell humanity’s ancient stories is bound to not only be different, but to also respect the time and cultural gap that were we not conscious of its depth, boundaries and maybe ambiguity; we would be bound to commit the double sin of misinterpreting the historical moment and eventually alienating/misinforming the viewers. In my film, it is true that I’m celebrating the beauty and uniqueness of ancient Egyptian art, colossal monuments and mythology, but I’m also trying to reestablish the lost link between modern day Egyptians and their remote ancestral culture. I’m persistently pursuing that goal, in both my films and books, because I think the crisis of modern day Egyptian cinema, as well as Egyptian culture and geo-politics, is of lost identity. The same predicament applies to westerners as they try to bridge the (unbridgeable) gulf between the true history of ancient Egypt and the (tampered with) Biblical stories about the land of the Pyramids. Or what the Biblical stories had deceptively designated as the land of the ‘Pharaohs’. To help you discover the truth about ancient Egypt, read my book (Egypt knew no Pharaohs nor Israelites) available now on Amazon.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U8VK8JE?*Version*=1&*entries*=0