City of Dreams (NTSC Version)

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City of Dreams is 52 minutes of sheer magic. Through the eyes and souls of buildings, a living history is conveyed via the architecture of the city of Asmara. Buildings become storytellers, they are transformed into statuesque, motionless testimonies of colonialist histories. A haunting musical score accompanies these treasures that reveal the pain and passion of previous occupiers of this precious land. This is a fresh genre of documentary making. Here, the children of the Diaspora turned film-makers, Ruby Ofori and Edward Scott, fuse the technical know-how of their world with the spiritual knowledge of their ancestral home and create fresh perspectives and unlock crucial but untold tales of the cities of Africa, beginning with Asmara. The eye of Scott is culturally and creatively fused as he points his camera to create a sombre beauty in sometimes stunning, sometimes haunting images of this city. The human narrators and characters in the film add additional shape and texture to the buildings, their words convey how architecture has a unique soul, contains the tears of those occupied and bears the physical marks of the momentary conquerors. This is Africa untold, perspective undiscovered. Here is a genre of documentary making that creates a fresh vision of territory so often rolled into a single, replayed story. Here come storytellers who carry soul in their cameras, vision in their direction and unique cultural understanding in their production. NTSC television standard for use in the USA only.

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Nice documentary on my beloved city though I had higher expectation........2007-01-12

Overall, a nice documentary on Asmara though I had higher expectation.
But I can't believe that the people who produced this DVD put Ethiopian music as background/soundtrack when they should have used Eritrean music. I have nothing against Ethiopian music - in fact I listen to it all the time - but this is a documentary on Eritrea's capital and not Ethiopia's. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of great Eritrean instrumental music that they could have chosen from for this project. To me this is unacceptable, shameful and completely shocking!
Other than that everything else is alright, though I wish the film was a bit longer, may be 90 minutes or so. Also, I would have liked to see a few more buildings added in the film as Asmara has one of the world's most remarkable concentrations of modernist architecture.

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