Dreams and Delusions | بين الأحلام والأوهام

في هذه الحلقة من بودكاست ياسر الياسري (مسموع)، يتعمق ياسر في العالم المعقد للأحلام والأوهام في صناعة الأفلام. يشاركنا تجاربه الشخصية حول تصنيفه النمطي كمخرج والتحديات التي تأتي مع ذلك. يستعرض ياسر اللحظة الحاسمة في مسيرته عندما كان عليه اتخاذ قرار مصيري حول كيفية المضي قدمًا. تقدم هذه الحلقة نظرة صريحة على الضغوط والواقع في صناعة الأفلام، وتستكشف كيفية تمكن صانعي الأفلام من التغلب على هذه التحديات والبقاء مخلصين لرؤيتهم الإبداعية. انضموا إلينا لمناقشة الخط الفاصل بين الطموح والوهم، وأهمية اتخاذ قرارات استراتيجية في مجال تنافسي. هذه الحلقة ضرورية لأي شخص يطمح إلى العمل في صناعة السينما ويرغب في فهم الحقائق الكامنة وراء الكواليس.

In this episode of Yasir Alyasiri's (Masmoo) Podcast, Yasir delves into the complex world of dreams and delusions within the filmmaking industry. He shares his personal experiences of being typecast as a filmmaker and the challenges that come with it. Yasir reflects on the pivotal moment in his career when he had to make a crucial decision about how to move forward. This episode offers a candid look at the pressures and realities of the film industry, exploring how filmmakers can navigate these challenges and stay true to their creative vision. Join us as we discuss the fine line between aspiration and illusion, and the importance of making strategic choices in a competitive field. This episode is a must-listen for aspiring filmmakers and anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes realities of the cinematic world.

Transcript

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[Music] Fame, the deceptive aura that surrounds it,

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that you are placed in a certain mold of work, and the decisive moment in which you must decide to follow

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what you want and not listen to the opinions of others. These are the topics that we will cover in the

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second episode of the audio podcast with Ya R. Al-Yasiri at the end of the first episode. The first episode. In the past, we have received

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the opportunity to direct my first work, which is Kanan, a video clip for a war band

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called the Dubai Military Band. For the listeners who are from countries outside the Emirates, the war bands

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are bands that represent Emirati folklore and folklore and some areas of Oman, which

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is the origin of the war band. There is a leader and a group of men in Mustafa. The leader

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recites a line of poetry and the group repeats after the verse. This is the same. The military bands

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were widespread before, I mean, before 2003. They were of course widespread on cassettes and CDs, and they have a good audience,

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but they were not familiar with these bands in a large way. I mean, these bands were not There were video

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clips on the channels at that time, which

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meant that the image was on the singers who were owned by the production company that owned these channels, such as

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Caliber T Music, which later became Rotana, and other similar channels, but in 2003, the emergence of

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the Nojoom channel was a very important factor in the success and emergence of Frankly speaking, there are many singers, bands and female singers

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who did not have the opportunity to appear on large channels such as Rotana and others. I mean,

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my directing of this clip coincided with the launch of the Nojoom channel, which provided a space and platform for the voices that

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were possible or the energies that were possible. Their financial capabilities were less than their counterparts in

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other companies, so I want Preparing the video clip The feeling that came over me that I was the brother of

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my first directing work means that I cannot describe it at all because it means that the step before that, the clip that

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I wanted to do, did not make me disappointed, even though I was not thinking about becoming

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a director. To be honest, I had experiences in the days when I was not a director. I used to take the

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company's employees and take videos of them using a camera called the Sony Hi-8, which means

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the handy cam. At that time, it was available, meaning we were away from

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professional cameras. For example, there was an employee named Fadel Fadel

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Danafesh who wanted to make a video for his family about how he was living in the country. Dubai, so I took him, of course. I took

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his picture and the shots I took, I mean, most of them have the feel of a dog in the eighties, between the roses and those

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things at the time. To be honest, the things I was doing and I didn’t care about it being, I mean, with a passion

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for directing, but with a passion for editing, I mean, I wanted to create a piece that I control its content, so that when I produce it,

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it shapes a specific thing, or for example. We had an employee named Om India, and his name was Kumar. This meant he

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had interests. He loved acting and loved Bollywood and such things, so I would try everything I could

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try with him. I mean, wear sunglasses and a robe, or a hat in Iraqi, and go out in the hallway

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and let him do Kean Reeves’ moves in the Matrix, and then I would produce with the music of the Matrix, or let him

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do a video. It's like the movements of Terminator and the producer of these things, but all of these things that

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I did were, frankly, with an obsession and passion for editing, not with a passion for directing. The first experience

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that I was presented with, and what I said in the previous episode, made me delve into

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this, in the corridors of the world of directing, that excited me, and perhaps the frustration that came from the lack of work arriving. It is

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being accomplished, leaving me motivated to do something else. Is it proof of self? Is it proof of talent? At

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the time of honesty, I can’t decide, and I can’t decide at the moment, but all I know is that I wanted to do this

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thing, so I want to prepare for the video clip, which is the song Hab Al-Naseem, and I started preparing the crew

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with his help. My older brother, Anwar Al-Yasiri, we want to prepare the crew and choose. I mean, with my brother’s advice,

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I choose a capable crew so that they can help me. Being me means the back ground of my

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directing skills and nothing. Even at that time, I was not studying directing, but I understand montage and I know

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about shots. I know these things. I mean, knowledge means good. On the books that specialize

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in the world of directing and filmmaking, and at that time, meaning the current generation, they must

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thank God and thank God for the amount of references that are available. It means that it is enough that you ask a question on Google

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and Google answers you with hundreds and thousands of answers that are similar and close to what you know, or you can enter

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YouTube and find videos that have no beginning. And it has no other education in my time. No, this thing

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did not exist. Those who only read books, and those who mostly read in the English language, meaning

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film making books so far. I mean, unfortunately, they do not have a large circulation in the Arab world, and there are not

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many publications in the Arabic language, so what has been published is only on... These books and movies were

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downloaded to DVD, you opened the DVD, you received a disk with the movie in it, and another disk with

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the machine on it. This machine made it possible for us to know more about how things were going. Or, for

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example, there were times when movie programs would come on. I mean, I remember I used to watch Showtime on whatever. TV shows

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behind-the-scenes scenes of business and such, but I see it, but I don't know why it's done. I know that it

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exists. I know that it's done in the same way, but why. Is there a law that governs it? Is there a specific thing or

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a specific system behind these things until it's done in the same way? I don't have any information and I don't have

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the capabilities. Or references until I confirm this thing or search for it, so I started preparing the video clip for this

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The breeze blew, and I chose, according to the advice of my brother, a prominent director of photography at

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the time. The director of photography, George Laba, from Lebanon, and with me was the clever Enad Sheikhani, from Syria.

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He , of course, had a great contribution to the production of the works that ERT TV was doing in

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Turkey, and the rest of the crew meant a portion of the people with us. There are people who work in the company and another section

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that came from the equipment section that we brought, for example, from ERT and the other equipment section from the company we have,

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and I started to prepare for video clips. I started to attend for the models who are with us, and I started to meet

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the embryos with the model and do casting, and I mean, keep in mind that all of these things are me. This is the first

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time I'm doing it, so I don't know how this way it will go or what

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I should do, but I mean, I was wearing a persona, which is that I know these things,

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I mean, I don't know. Honestly, I start taking examples that become an example from the first question

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I ask or from the first piece of information I hear and build on it. Logically, what might happen after that? I mean,

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for example, during casting, I saw the agent, which in some countries is called the registry,

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and I saw in the reception a large group of models. I mean, but I don’t know. I was going to stop at half of them and

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say, “This is what I don’t know how to do,” so I settled myself and went to sit in the office, and the icon came to me and said. Let's

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start, let's start entering one by one or one by one, so I knew that casting was necessary one by one,

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so I started to choose. I started to determine the clothes that we would go buy from, where and from where. The idea of ​​the clip

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means that I tried to keep it within the scope of the heritage and folklore of

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war band songs, and I chose a location that is very familiar to those who... It is close to my house in

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an area called Mirdif in Dubai, and it dates back to 2003, meaning that most of its areas were desert, of course. Today,

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it means that there is no place for any piece of desert in this area, God willing, because of the construction and development

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that has taken place in it, so I chose this place because it means the most familiar thing to me when I see it. I

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am going and I am coming from the house and I specified what exactly I wanted and we used it. I mean,

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the band’s relatives bring children and you so that they can perform this role, or we use

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their faces, meaning photogenic, and make it dell’s of men and girls. We brought them from

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whose nationality it was. It was their turn. He does a dance that is called the casket, and the casket

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is it. The ladies stand up and tilt their hair forward from the right and left with

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the rhythm of the song. So we prepared all the things, and I prepared the props that I might need, and the day ended,

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which was the day of filming. I entered the filming location, and to be honest, I had two

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contradictory feelings, which was the first feeling, which was the feeling of joy and elation that this is me. The first work

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I did was a chore and the second feeling was a feeling of dread and tension about

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how I was going to lead this operation. Unfortunately for me, the first clip I did was made by Kanan with

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a large number of actors and crew. I mean, we only had the band itself, one of them,

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which means approximately more than 40 people, in addition to approximately 10 girls, so it is 50. The work crew was 30 to 40

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, meaning it was a huge number, and it was led by a young man, meaning he was 17 years old or the beginning of 18

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, meaning I was not even able to get a driver’s license, and the fact that I had a car to drive meant

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that I was a director in this work, in the same way and with the hat that I wore in preparation, that

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means. I pretend that I know and show the known thing, then

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I show the same thing by filming, and the filming began, and the filming ended

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, and I took the materials and went to montage. Of course, this means after my playground, so in the end, I did

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the things that I know how to do with montage, and I produced them as best as possible with what is in this

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video. I remember I am a producer on a program called Edus was a new emerging program, and it was considered

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one of the things that was supposed to be promising. Of course, there was no future and it ended, but at the time of

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Kanan, it was one of the things that meant that there might be a future. So I finished the montage,

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made two color lines, left the names, and the clip was ready. I copied it to a bitcam tape

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and we went. We brought it to the Nojoom channel. What happened after the clip came out? I mean, no, I have the best dreams, and I don’t

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think Saeed Al-Kubi has the best dreams. I expected the song to be a hit, I mean, very big, I mean,

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and it became popular. I mean, not only in the Emirates, even which means the original target audience, but

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even counting the fans of the rest of them from the Levant from The Gulf from Iraq, because it was painful, was new,

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I mean, visually and even vocally, because vocally, poetry was the property of this song in particular, very difficult poetry,

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and its words were difficult, so whoever heard it felt himself like the one who heard his work with a code, so I think

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it was a factor in the success of this clip. The success of this clip made me feel that there was no... By God, I am

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a director. I can continue with this topic. I mean, I continue in stages, and at that young age, I sit, for example,

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in a coffee shop, and the Nojoom channel comes on, and the song comes on, and my name comes up, for example. My friends who, for example, struggle

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with it, keep pointing at it, saying, “This is the director of the clip,” and people, for example, sometimes

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know me by my name, and here comes the part with the conversation. Regarding fame, that fame is the goal or

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are the goals different at the beginning of the career? I mean, when you set out on something and settle it for the love or

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goal of saying a specific thing or presenting a specific thing, fame came by chance. Of course, I am from here

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talking about fame, which means it concerns me. I am talking about his fame, which means very much. Simple but that gets me through

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I feel that I was very proud of this fame. I was very happy with people knowing me at that time. At that

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age, I felt that this is all I wanted. This convinced me that I am talking about fame in general. Unfortunately, in our current time, fame

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has become a goal for everyone. I mean, for almost all people. All people aspire to

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be. Famous, and fame in our time, unfortunately, has become almost limited to those who have a relationship with art

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or have a relationship with strange things or comedic things. I mean, fame has become associated with things.

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Either you be bold by putting up something different that will generate views and likes for you, or something that has a relationship

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with art, even though art is not all of life. Life has many other parts and parts that are more important

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even than art. I mean, let us be honest. How many of us, for example, are familiar with the winners

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of the Nobel Prize, and how many of us are

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familiar with the winners of the Oscars?

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A chemist, for example, or a scientist in atoms, or in mathematics, or in medicine, or in

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astronomy, or, or, and how many of us know almost all the actors

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in the cinema? This is a very unfair comparison, because collective thought has become very inclined towards fame that has

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to do with art, and this, of course, is justified by saying that it is the media and the media. In general, he is

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in control of the messages that reach the recipient, so these messages from the media became directed

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to the recipient and pertained to the media, so fame became almost associated with what pertains to the media

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only. I mean, look at what talent programs we have and see what happens to talent programs. There are demonstrations that

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take place and there are people who vote and spend their money until so-and-so arrives. A singer becomes, but does this thing exist,

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oh programs related to, for example, discovering scientific talents or important research that can actually change human beings,

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I mean, all elements of art and the media see these entertainment elements that may have messages and times

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that can be changed, or or or or perform an important purpose, but in the greatest way aspects The other part of life

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that we should not focus on is that we support the people who have progressed in it and in fact they are the famous ones,

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they are the ones we sing praises about, they are the ones whose names we say, they are the ones who are trending because they are actually the ones

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who will change the current path of humanity, my future, meaning before, for example, before the advent of cinema

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, photography, and the entertainment side. From the media, fame was almost limited to scientists.

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The scientist who presents research in a journal or publishes a particular theory is the one who becomes famous,

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and he is the one whose name becomes known among all people and among all countries. And see then how

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this topic has changed until we have reached the present time. Almost everything related

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In trend, whether in art or sports or things that are daring or strange or such,

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but I do not wish to see a trend that, for example, a new mathematical equation solved an

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astronomical problem. For example, this does not exist. Fame has now become a goal for everyone, and fame has become

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almost associated only with art and a little with sports. I mean, fame is always blinding. A person loses sight of his true goal

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because it makes him strive only because he wants to achieve fame. In order to achieve this

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fame, he may ignore many of the principles to which he is originally born, and which he

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originally believes in, because he has achieved the goal of fame, and fame requires him to

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do A, B, C, and D in a way. Moeen Farrah follows these requirements, as he goes with

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what is trending. Fame can change a hobby, one of the basic principles of every person. Other than that,

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fame has become a mirror of the positive side almost only, meaning what we see on social media

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is that the celebrity is the one who is traveling and the one who is going out, meaning a storyteller. The sweet side of

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his life, even the problems appear in a funny way or in the form of, for example, a prank or such. This unfortunately conveys to

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the ordinary recipient who is not, for example, a social media celebrity or, for example, a Bart god, in all

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media at all, and he feels that all human beings live this way, so it creates a problem for the ordinary person,

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the ordinary recipient, that he He wants to compare himself or he wants to achieve this life, even if he does not want to

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achieve the same fame, but he achieves the life of the famous person and reality comes, and he finds that reality is impossible. This life

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is achieved because in the end, what he wants to see means a minute, half an hour, an hour, meaning this is an allotted time

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and a very small part of a person’s life during... Today, the recipient wants to apply what he sees,

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meaning a little bit, to apply it to his entire life. This has caused problems that have caused a

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great falsity. The recipient feels that this actually exists, and even

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if it does not affect the actions on the recipient’s idea, it means it affects his psyche, that he feels that he is whatever

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he is and wants to settle, he will not achieve anything or anything. Anyone else is similar to what he saw, but did not achieve

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the same result or did not reach

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the same level as the person who achieved this fame that I see. It also affected marital relations. It even affected

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the rate of suicide in the world. By the way, I was greatly affected by this thing and the

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marital relationship, because people, meaning husband and wife, see things. By social media, I mean, it is a

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paradise of dreams. I mean, they want it to be applied to them, but it is not applied in reality. Life means, by

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the way, I mean, life has its part and its bitter side is bigger in a hobby than its sweet part. Unfortunately, I mean, who do

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you want to fall for a little bit? This will fall on your whole life. This, of course, will be an impossible thing, so I You want

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The period of months made me feel that I wanted to do things,

0:21:08.640,0:21:17.480
I want to know more, and this is of course the wrong goal that I had at the time. It was my first

0:21:17.480,0:21:23.760
experience, my age, and my lack of awareness of the issue. Thank God, there was no

0:21:23.760,0:21:29.440
social media at the time, and it was not yet. I mean,

0:21:29.440,0:21:36.520
the issue increased for me even more. And more and more, I began to want to become a director for the sake of fame during this

0:21:36.520,0:21:42.840
particular period. I mean, for the sake of knowing, for the sake of hearing someone say to me, “By God, you are the one who

0:21:42.840,0:21:48.039
did this, may God bless you.” Or, “You did this thing. It’s all good. This thing has become the goal

0:21:48.039,0:21:54.520
I have, but the problem I faced is the one to be honest.” What I didn't think about was that I fell into

0:21:54.520,0:22:01.320
a mold that I didn't know about, because with the work that followed, almost all the military bands

0:22:01.320,0:22:07.880
in the Emirates and Oman came to me wanting to film a video clip, and I of course chose

0:22:07.880,0:22:13.360
the closest audio to it and the sweetest one until I settled it, and I made a second video clip for the Dubai Military Band,

0:22:13.360,0:22:20.840
then another band. I did the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth, and I found myself making about ten clips

0:22:20.840,0:22:27.159
for military bands, but when do I do anything else? I mean, when do I do anything different? Even the shows that

0:22:27.159,0:22:32.760
come to me don’t bring me something different from the military bands,

0:22:32.760,0:22:41.080
so I felt at that time that I was finished. I mean, I could be molded into this field or It is typical of this

0:22:41.080,0:22:48.880
type of business only, and despite the success of some of them, honesty, and despite achieving the fame that I

0:22:48.880,0:22:56.080
aspired to achieve and come back to, I confirm that it is fame. I am talking about a very narrow scope, but at

0:22:56.080,0:23:03.559
my age, which is 18 years old and 17 years old, five people know me on the street as far as I am concerned. The best thing

0:23:03.559,0:23:10.640
in the world, so this is what was my first goal, but since the things I did were repeated

0:23:10.640,0:23:18.159
and repeated in the same style, I started to feel a different feeling that it is not possible that I want to do something else.

0:23:18.159,0:23:23.679
At that moment and at that age, the different thing I wanted to do. Frankly, it was not the way to fame, but

0:23:23.679,0:23:30.360
the way to show it. No, I have other things that I can do, or I have

0:23:30.360,0:23:36.880
other ideas that I can do, or at least I want to reach what I see in the movies that I love. I

0:23:36.880,0:23:43.240
apply things that are close to them, and that means, with respect and great pride in the military divisions,

0:23:43.240,0:23:49.520
they are not similar, and the things that I see or the things that I aspire to do it,

0:23:49.520,0:23:56.600
so I started looking for work that would get me out of this mold that I am in. Otherwise, I will

0:23:56.600,0:24:00.480
spend my entire life doomed to do this type

0:24:00.480,0:24:08.480
of work. If this means that the type of work will decrease or its market will decline,

0:24:08.480,0:24:15.880
then as a result, it means that the same thing will happen to me. During my stay in... In the company and the one who had

0:24:15.880,0:24:23.159
the sound studio, they used to go on strike. It was a hobby for the studio to record. For me,

0:24:23.159,0:24:29.440
the editing room was close to the studio. Sometimes, I mean, sometimes my older brother would bring them to see

0:24:29.440,0:24:35.120
their narrator, my work, of course. I mean, 99% of them were not convinced.

0:24:35.120,0:24:42.960
1% was convinced, but he wanted to do it for free. I mean, these things were up to the point of getting work. It was by the artist

0:24:42.960,0:24:52.000
Khaled Al-Iraqi, and it was a song about Baghdad, and the war was on, meaning the American invasion had begun, and

0:24:52.000,0:24:59.960
the situation in Iraq was very difficult, so this song was talking about Baghdad and the pain

0:24:59.960,0:25:06.760
that was going to happen to it, so the title of the song was Baghdad, which is not like it, so I found this opportunity

0:25:06.760,0:25:15.760
to do something. It is close to what I aspire to, and it brings me out of the military corps business model.

0:25:15.760,0:25:21.679
The artist Khaled Al-Iraqi came to me and I said to him such and such. Khaled said, “I have it.” I mean, the amount

0:25:21.679,0:25:28.960
I have is 3000 dirhams. This is what I can pay. So I started to talk about 3000 dirhams, meaning

0:25:28.960,0:25:36.520
700 or 600 dollars. I mean, so I said. Okay, in addition to the fact that the song is part of a large archive,

0:25:36.520,0:25:44.480
but at the same time, I want to photograph in a certain way, I want to use certain things, I want to create

0:25:44.480,0:25:50.760
a new style, so I was very interested in the style that he would appear in at that time. I mean, according to

0:25:50.760,0:25:56.559
my belief, what Khaled Iraqi would appear in would be different in clothing. In the way of

0:25:56.559,0:26:04.000
the look, how do I do the lighting? How do I move with the camera? I mean, it's one of the funny things that

0:26:04.000,0:26:10.279
I want to mention about this clip in particular. I mean, in addition to the very small amount of the budget

0:26:10.279,0:26:20.240
for the clip, I replied, "I'm doing a charger move," meaning they failed. I mean, we're going to do something, so it was still in the company.

0:26:20.240,0:26:27.159
I mean, it's not a buyer, so you can't say goodbye to it. It is like a tripod that gives up on its track and walks.

0:26:27.159,0:26:33.480
It is the most important thing that you can adjust the position of the camera by changing it from one place to another

0:26:33.480,0:26:40.720
smoothly. It is better, for example, to remove it completely. So come and use this as a sign, so stop the time of the director of photography.

0:26:40.720,0:26:48.159
May God remind him of the good fortune he has witnessed. So he changed the movement, so the movement means shaking, which means natural. Because on

0:26:48.159,0:26:57.720
the camera, I mean, and this is how he walks with it, we fail. We make the movement smooth and smooth, so we came up with

0:26:57.720,0:27:04.320
the idea that we brought a rope and tied it to the tripod that belongs to the camera and left

0:27:04.320,0:27:11.720
the camera on the other side. I mean, for example, the last one from the camera on the opposite side is one of the crew

0:27:11.720,0:27:18.000
holding this rope and dragging the rope in such a way that The movement appears smooth

0:27:18.000,0:27:23.679
, meaning that he does not drag, for example, over and over again. No, no, he must drag it once and then go back to sleeping

0:27:23.679,0:27:33.039
on his back until he reaches the end. I mean, we filmed the work in this way, and I took the work and they

0:27:33.039,0:27:38.559
produced it, and they adjusted it for the colors. They are all greyed out, especially I am Modiya. I mean, the distance of the station

0:27:38.559,0:27:45.159
is stars. The Stars station at that time had a program at night that presented new songs

0:27:45.159,0:27:53.519
And the exclusive thing, so the presenter, the presenter, and the program came out and he laughed and said, “Today I am working exclusively,” and I remember that we were

0:27:53.519,0:28:00.039
standing in the coffee shop next to the company, which is owned by my brother after all. He is the owner of the company. So, where

0:28:00.039,0:28:05.760
do we know that the verse comes out, for example, at 10 o’clock at night? Then they came out and said to the creative director, Yasser

0:28:05.760,0:28:11.399
Al-Yasiri, “When they said it, everyone in the coffee shop applauded, and I was happy.”

0:28:11.399,0:28:19.799
That's it, for me. I mean, the amazing numbers arrived. I mean, the song came out, and it seemed like

0:28:19.799,0:28:28.840
I might have something different from what I could do in military bands. So I started to mean, these are

0:28:28.840,0:28:35.840
the singers who used to come to the studio before and come and see, for example, through my brother

0:28:35.840,0:28:43.519
or through my friends who are distributors, like the distributor Zaid Nadeem. Or Zaid Adel, they bring them and he sees them as

0:28:43.519,0:28:51.200
my work. We are a friendship. I mean, Zaid Nadeem and Zaid Adel, I mean especially Zaid Nadeem, have a

0:28:51.200,0:28:57.399
very strong friendship. So he used to answer that if, for example, a Clint came to me and he wanted to see something or a client wanted

0:28:57.399,0:29:03.960
something, I would go and bring the oil so it would be distributed to him, and vice versa, so it started to happen. I have something other than the

0:29:03.960,0:29:10.640
military divisions, perhaps the client who comes to see it, so I started to strive more, which is

0:29:10.640,0:29:18.080
to do different works and stay away from the military divisions

0:29:18.080,0:29:25.919
as much as I can. To be honest, I kept doing, for example, how much work I have done, and because these works helped me a lot

0:29:25.919,0:29:32.919
in creating a personality, that is, a directing personality, I mean, I started. You know, I started

0:29:32.919,0:29:38.200
to go to the editing and see what I did wrong or what was right, or for example, what is the

0:29:38.200,0:29:44.200
missing shot, what should they do like this? I even at that time started to sit and watch movies the way I did

0:29:44.200,0:29:51.440
and try to extract certain theories from them that this is the shot. I mean, why do they look like this and then

0:29:51.440,0:29:56.480
go away like this and why does the actor have to sell? This side is not for this side, and why

0:29:56.480,0:30:03.039
should the other actor respond to him, selling to him the side, not his side? I mean, I had questions as a hobby. I mean, but I was

0:30:03.039,0:30:10.720
trying to make sense of it from repeatedly watching movies, and I see that in more than one movie it has become like this, so

0:30:10.720,0:30:16.200
it has to happen like this, but why don’t I know that I don’t have any? The idea is that all of these experiences

0:30:16.200,0:30:25.279
and all the things that I have seen mean a turmoil on my part. Of course, it means going to the filming location

0:30:25.279,0:30:32.200
and filming. Of course, before that time, we were filming 24 hours, 26 hours, 28 hours straight. All of

0:30:32.200,0:30:39.679
these interactions mean an evolution in the person, and you showed me, of course, the necessity that I learn more and more

0:30:39.679,0:30:45.640
and in the presence of Currently, I have a different job other than the military bands. I have become able to tell

0:30:45.640,0:30:53.559
the singers who come to the studio this thing. Perhaps they will accept. At that time, within

0:30:53.559,0:31:00.440
the same group that existed between me and Zaid Nadeem, there was an Iraqi artist to whom I greeted. My beloved,

0:31:00.440,0:31:10.880
his name is Kazem Al-Rassam, and he was recording songs with With Zaind Nadeem, he had a song called “Washaad,”

0:31:10.880,0:31:17.720
and this song means he spent a little on it in distribution, and he wanted to film it, and if I felt like writing it,

0:31:17.720,0:31:25.279
I had to make this song similar to, or similar to, the songs that appear on channels like

0:31:25.279,0:31:30.399
Rotana and the big channels, or even even the works on which he spent production in Nojoom,

0:31:30.399,0:31:36.440
I mean, I want to. I look at the stage of the last thing I did that cost 3000 dirhams or 500 or 600 dollars.

0:31:36.440,0:31:45.039
I don’t want to do the best, and the capabilities that Kazem Al-Rassam has are not that

0:31:45.039,0:31:55.039
great, but it is reasonable. If I can do certain things, I can at

0:31:55.039,0:32:00.559
least photograph for two days. I mean, this is what I had a dream about. I shoot a clip for two days, which means I shoot a clip for

0:32:00.559,0:32:08.720
two days. I have more time. I take more shots. I expand the story more. And during this

0:32:08.720,0:32:15.000
period, I mean, the number of employees inside the company has increased, and there are a large number of their own. I can

0:32:15.000,0:32:21.240
exploit them by painting certain things inside the dog. We had carpenters, we had people

0:32:21.240,0:32:28.279
who dyed, etc. I am talking outside the scope of the technical people with the equipment, so I now have the capacity to complete it

0:32:28.279,0:32:33.679
in my hands. It is possible that I will not pay it. For the same amount, which is considered a small amount that

0:32:33.679,0:32:42.320
Kazem Al-Rassam provided, I was able to deliver the clip. It was conceived over a period of two days, and this, for me,

0:32:42.320,0:32:50.440
meant a great achievement. I filmed the clip and made props, and I remember what They were the carpenters, and I went to me

0:32:50.440,0:32:58.960
like the phone in the room, like the phone money, which is like London money, and we left it and painted it. I got

0:32:58.960,0:33:04.039
a crane and put the car on it and filmed the car driving in the street. I mean, there are things that I have never

0:33:04.039,0:33:11.480
used before. It is impossible for me to use them for work like military divisions, and I am very tired of doing this

0:33:11.480,0:33:19.600
work. I mean, it will come out. In a different way, I defied all the difficulties

0:33:19.600,0:33:28.200
and all the simple capabilities that I had in order to deliver this work, so that it would appear in a way that

0:33:28.200,0:33:33.559
presents me as a person, and that it conveys the idea that I want to say,

0:33:33.559,0:33:40.720
and here our concern began. The topic of fame, frankly, became less important for me. The topic became more that

0:33:40.720,0:33:48.039
it is a challenge. I want to challenge myself by saying that I am... I can do better, and I want to challenge others that

0:33:48.039,0:33:56.120
you see, I have more. I mean, I always remember this day, without mentioning the name of the artist. We were sitting

0:33:56.120,0:34:03.039
in a coffee shop that is attached to the company, and a group of artists were sitting, so they were talking like this.

0:34:03.039,0:34:09.119
I said that the day will come when I will be a director, and you who are sitting are all wishing. You can

0:34:09.119,0:34:14.960
imagine me saying it with a laugh. I mean, one of the artists responded to him. I mean, it's because

0:34:14.960,0:34:24.000
he was very mocking and very belittling. Maybe this complements, oh, oh, the mockery that I started with, or

0:34:24.000,0:34:29.280
the laughter that I started with, but it affected me greatly. I mean, it made me challenge myself in a way.

0:34:29.280,0:34:35.679
The biggest thing is that I don't want to do it, not that I want to be able or even remember, for example, I used to go with

0:34:35.679,0:34:44.359
my friends to the cinema and we would sit, and I would tell them that the day will come when you go to the cinema and buy

0:34:44.359,0:34:50.359
popcorn and Pepsi and sit and watch one of my films and they laugh and laugh. To be honest,

0:34:50.359,0:34:58.960
it's a dream that I see can come true, and that means that. I work on it honestly with every challenge, and as I know, it is

0:34:58.960,0:35:03.320
very difficult. I mean, the data that currently exists

0:35:03.320,0:35:10.160
and the pattern of development that is happening to me means that I have time for a hobby until I reach God. This means that

0:35:10.160,0:35:18.400
it has become now. I mean, I have become from one. I mean, I am mostly feeling dazzled by the feeling of fame who saw

0:35:18.400,0:35:26.640
the suddenness to one. This is a challenge that he is going to do things in a better way, so he filmed the clip over

0:35:26.640,0:35:32.960
two days, and as I wanted, at a small cost of course, but I used all the things that

0:35:32.960,0:35:39.920
I could use, and he, the director of photography, was a wealth of martyrs, may God remember him with goodness.

0:35:39.920,0:35:47.599
We made an airport and we made an arrangement. I don’t know what happened, and the montage stage that I am came to. It is controlled

0:35:47.599,0:35:57.599
by this, meaning at this time I decided that no, this time, I will not produce it, and I will not use it

0:35:57.599,0:36:02.319
with the money. You see, it is the same one that cooks for Kazem. I mean, all the new things or all

0:36:02.319,0:36:09.160
the requests that are requested are from me. I mean, in principle, I do not take any wages at all. I was on Neither

0:36:09.160,0:36:14.040
this video clip nor the clips before it mean, for example, what would I get paid for, for example, a

0:36:14.040,0:36:20.680
sum of money? All of this I spend on the clip, so that, for example, I can get a certain thing or

0:36:20.680,0:36:28.640
use a certain thing. So I said, I want to do something and produce this work and its color in Egypt. About a year ago,

0:36:28.640,0:36:35.880
I was I was going on a family trip, and my brother, we went to Egypt, and we went to the studios, and we went

0:36:35.880,0:36:42.560
to see the people, so I got to know Wagih Ahmed’s studio. Wagih Ahmed at that time was

0:36:42.560,0:36:50.680
one of the most important editors in the Arab world, not just in Egypt, and he made songs, I mean, there are countless,

0:36:50.680,0:36:57.560
I mean, almost all the songs were released on ART. Protana and the channels of Al-Mahma, or

0:36:57.560,0:37:02.960
Maloudi, of course, started to appear on the scene at that time. He was my face, so I said I want

0:37:02.960,0:37:09.560
to do this work, which is the work of a song, Shaad, and it is Kazem, the artist, Kazem Al-Rassam. I want

0:37:09.560,0:37:15.280
to do it in Egypt, not that I am a producer, for the same amount, for the same amount. I started to tell you, Wajih, what happened.

0:37:15.280,0:37:21.839
I have a good relationship with him from the previous trip, and we were playing PlayStation and I had a challenge with

0:37:21.839,0:37:28.599
PlayStation and you lost, and they brought me people from Alexandria and people until Woni wins, so it became a proverb,

0:37:28.599,0:37:36.480
meaning there is a nice relationship between me and them. In his speech, I said I will come so I can produce this

0:37:36.480,0:37:45.119
clip with you, and he is honest, thank you. I mean, he said ok. And the price that was high was a very competitive price

0:37:45.119,0:37:51.560
, so I was happy to go to Egypt and produce this clip, and I colored it

0:37:51.560,0:37:57.960
and released it. I mean, as a result, there was no hobby available before,

0:37:57.960,0:38:05.920
especially from directors of my level, or at least with works of this level, so the song came out,

0:38:05.920,0:38:12.880
and the song composed something good. I mean, I don’t say it hit and broke, but it composed something good, and they seemed to be singers.

0:38:12.880,0:38:21.079
And female singers outside the war bands, without the mediation of my brother, or the distributor Zaid Nadeem, or the people

0:38:21.079,0:38:26.119
in the company or those who come to record us by chance, they are calling me. No, without all these

0:38:26.119,0:38:34.599
mediations, they want to contact me so that everything can be resolved. It has become a new phase in my life. At this time, I decided. I said

0:38:34.599,0:38:41.280
that these are the challenges. I resolved that no, I swear to God. If I am correct, then let me go with this

0:38:41.280,0:38:47.400
topic, and always what I did with Kazem’s dog, the painter, and what I did again

0:38:47.400,0:38:54.480
with the rest of the clips, okay, this is the style or this is what I am going to follow, saying that I will not

0:38:54.480,0:39:03.560
do work, but until I do work, I will not do work, I am convinced of it and I will do it better. It is not possible with as many

0:39:03.560,0:39:10.800
possibilities as I can provide for it to turn out well, until I get the same return of opinions or

0:39:10.800,0:39:19.880
the same recognition for my budding talent, so I have to do the same thing. So I started not taking everything. I started

0:39:19.880,0:39:25.599
taking things that at least reach a certain price so that I can buy

0:39:25.599,0:39:34.319
something with it and the artist, male or female, is gone. They offer something additional and positive to Lida. I settled with this

0:39:34.319,0:39:43.280
decision. I said I mean the quality or number of works, which declined greatly at a time when there were

0:39:43.280,0:39:50.800
competing directors. I mean, they were, of course, older than me and more experienced at the time, but they were making it. I mean, they could

0:39:50.800,0:39:56.200
make two clips a day, film two clips a day, and they would be released

0:39:56.200,0:40:03.640
approximately between one day. And a new day began, meaning those around me and the people I know blamed me

0:40:03.640,0:40:10.400
for saying that I was wrong, meaning that the decision I made was that I should settle, but the thing that I

0:40:10.400,0:40:18.960
wanted to be 100% in control of its outcome and spend on it until I earned my wages and even tried to save this thing

0:40:18.960,0:40:24.760
was wrong and that I should walk away, oh the popular and the sad, and that's it, I should do something like this. What's wrong with me? For

0:40:24.760,0:40:33.359
a period of time, I remained confused about my situation, and at the same time, of course, I mean, the financial circumstances were very

0:40:33.359,0:40:38.760
tiring as a person. I mean, thank God, I was living in the house that my brother provided for, and I was in the company that

0:40:38.760,0:40:46.160
my brother is the owner of, and everything, but as for expenses, I did not have, I did not have money. I mean,

0:40:46.160,0:40:55.480
the lack of money, the lack of work, and the words I hear from the people around me are that you,

0:40:55.480,0:41:02.800
no, you are wrong, and you have to make up your mind. See, the rest of them are working, and you are the only one working. You are choosing

0:41:02.800,0:41:10.839
and spewing out the Iraqi. I mean, like the one who is strengthening, this will not get you the result. I wish I had

0:41:10.839,0:41:17.839
been stressed for a long time. Until I decided, I said, Okay, I'm going to go, popular guy, come on, bring me

0:41:17.839,0:41:26.319
the clips that came, which means less than the number I wanted to settle, and I did, and by God I did.

0:41:26.319,0:41:32.359
I mean, I filmed a clip one day. I filmed two clips, one after the other. I filmed

0:41:32.359,0:41:39.440
a third clip, for example, in a quick way. Most of them were still produced in Egypt, to be honest, and it is

0:41:39.440,0:41:47.040
a good company, and I produced it there, at least, so that I could preserve, I mean, a certain part, but frankly, I am

0:41:47.040,0:41:53.520
not convinced of the work, but I settled it in order to settle it quickly. I can do it, I have

0:41:53.520,0:41:58.160
work and a bigger balance, so that my name appears on television, and you people who have a job from day to day,

0:41:58.160,0:42:06.440
I mean, I decided that like Yasser, I will become the kind of director who has everything that comes to me.

0:42:06.440,0:42:13.280
I do it with you for ten, I do it with five, I do it with three. I do everything I do, and I do it in a specific way

0:42:13.280,0:42:21.520
that suits me. I came quickly and quickly, and there was no need for me to think about how this

0:42:21.520,0:42:29.359
business would happen or what the result would be. I took the decision and it was over, and I became at this stage until

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a defining moment came in my entire history in my career, which was the artist to whom I extend my greetings, love

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and respect, the artist Basil Al-Aziz. And he wanted to film a clip. He had a song that he wanted to film as

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a clip, and he wanted to film it for cinema. Imagine that at that time, I mean, the most reliable thing for God was

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digital. I mean, even after me, I started to be Estonian. I mean, here we will start with HD only, but I will

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include the topic of HD in an upcoming episode. I mean, but it means a shortcut to Almost on

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digital, I mean, we were filming with digital cameras. I mean, my grandfather filmed cinema clips. Of course, Basil

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Al-Aziz has a relationship. We have a family relationship with him, and he is a brotherly friend in a very big way. I mean, I

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know the whole stage of recording the song, and the song was composed by the creative artist

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Walid Al-Shami. Of course, the artist Sham has a relationship with me. From

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2002, I mean, it was like a friendship, even before I became a director, before he became a singer, before he,

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I mean, was one of the most wonderful tunes that singers give you. He used to compose it, so this song was

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filmed by me and me and the director without mentioning his name, and the topic never happened, and so on, this

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is the rule. And my dear brother of art, Basi, I extend my greetings to Ghassan Al-Aziz, and he came to the idea that why should

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I not make this clip? The clip that was going to be filmed in cinema, that is,

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with a cinema camera after the 16mm or 35mm camera was based, and filming where, not Turkey, not even

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in Dubai, I mean, and this work is possible for me to do it. A very pivotal moment came to me at a time when I decided

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that I would be a director, as they say in the common expression, directing works, and I concluded, but until I filmed,

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that I would film a film with a movie camera, and in a country I would like to go to prayer, not until

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I would go to film, with a Turkish proverb. In the next episode, we will talk about... This is the defining moment that changed

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my career and almost changed everything that came after it and what resulted from it.

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I hope I did not mean that I was too heavy for you today, and I hope that you enjoyed and benefited from

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the personal experiences and confessions that I said in this episode, and God willing, after you have slept

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through half of the episode, and if you sleep, they will come back and listen to it from Text: Thank you and we will see you in the next episode