An Untimely Film For Every One and No One (2018)

• 90 minutes

Director: Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri

Released • February 21, 2018

In 2007 Ayreen Anastas made a journey through Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia, collecting materials for a film. The film was intended as an adaptation of Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” in the contemporary Arab world. Since that initial material was collected, much of the region and the world have been thrown into ever-greater tumult. An attempt is made to approach the material in a collective manner and make an untimely version of it. For Nietzsche, untimely meant something not belonging to the order of the tastes, expectations, and procedures of its…