1st circle old goods, and documentaries

I took this shot as I was walking to first circle, a shot of the Rubicon building from the back. I thought the building was pretty vintage. Before that I had the privilege of visiting a photography studio that's been in Amman since early '60s, had a very long chat with the photographer there, George Lepedjian. I took a stroll around first circle and crossed the modified Rainbow street. But before I went out to the circle itself, I took

portrait of George

Afterwards, I went ahead to attend the public screening for the documentary shorts produced at the Univeristy of South California's workshop alongside the Royal Film Commission. Met Hiba and Ibrahim there and got the chance to watch both Nada Jaffal's short of a hilarious story-telling oracle taxi driver called David as well as Lina Ejeilat's short concerning her questioning of how the old place of Al Jam'a Al Arabeyya cafe in Balad gets part of it knocked down in favour of building a new commercial centre.

Nada's short was absolutely hilarious, and it carries that comic spirit to it that you'd expect to hear her joking about it. I really loved it. Lina's was really good, especially how she showed different insights on "El Balad".

I didn't like "Letter from Guantanamo", "The City of Art & Music", "What is Recycling" and "An Ammani Spirit". I'm sorry but they didn't impress me as much as the two mentioned above and the great "Minister of Peanuts" - gave me goosebumps! A Day in the lives of two Brothers was REALLY impressive, unique and interesting!

c'est tout!