12:00

2008

Let Him Eat Bread weaves together visual memories severed from their original contexts, expanding the documentary form to interrogate its own impossibility. The film examines framing as both an act of transmission and a means of connection, layering Al Jazeera footage, excerpts from radio interviews, and fragments of diverse texts. Its title, drawn from a New York Times article on noise pollution in Cairo, references an Arabic phrase that resists translation—remaining, like some of the images themselves, foreign and elusive. A computer-generated voice from 2008 narrates the film, adding another layer of mediation and dislocation.