Ahmed performs the speech sitting alone in a cinema, reflecting upon the image of itself that Britain exports through its films.
Polish cinema burst upon the world in the 1950s with Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy, A Generation, Kanał and Ashes and Diamonds, with the director becoming the voice of disaffected postwar youth.
But he's way too smart not also to feel a pang of disappointment at how dependent British cinema remains upon public subsidy for its success, and how little of the benefit actually flows back to British companies.
The work is the video piece FF Gaiden: Alternative, currently on show at The Gallery, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
It failed to mention that for over three decades Harold McCarthy had been one of the most influential people in the British film business; that his tastes had shaped the movie-going lives of two generations; that from Cork to Calcutta, the managers of independent cinemas relied upon him to determine what the audience saw when the curtains juddered open.
"Before, our fashion designers looked down upon cinema costume designing.
Includes Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in America and The Mission, plus other film music transcribed for solo piano.
Horror cinema was built upon such milestones, but this gothic masterpiece has seeped into the very soul of movie-making itself, continuing to cast its unbreakable spell – thrilling, chilling, electrifying.
Küstendorf is a festival free of corporate sponsorship that aims to give back the gifts that cinema has bestowed upon Kusturica to a new generation of filmmakers, as 20 student films are screened alongside established director debuts.
Through this steadily-rising dramatic action, Shishkin touches upon cinema's ability to induce the wonder, reverence, fear, and emptiness in space, for those of us who haven't had the chance to visit yet.
