استتابة الجمهوريين 1985: عطيات الأبنودي وأنا بقلم عبد الله علي إبراهيم

THE RECANTATION FIELDS A Documentary of a 1985 Recantation Ordeal Administered by the Clerical Class in Sudan at Five Men after the Execution of their Mentor and Islamic Reformer, M. M. Taha (78 years) The Project The project seeks to research, record/video and produce a documentary film of the execution of M. M. Taha (1909-1985), the Sudanese Islamic reformer, and the recantations of his disciples at the hands of Muslim clerics in January 18, 1985. In the collection phase of the project, I will add to the image resources of the original video of the killing and recantations aired on January 19, 1985. A dismayed viewer described the video as coming out of a Fellini film. In the collection phase, I will seek primarily to tape the narratives of those who survived the ordeal by disgorging their views. In integrating these narratives, the fragments of minor actors, the project seeks to understand better the execution of Taha, enshrined as the Arab Day of Human Rights, monumentalized by various political concerns and lobbies for their own ends. The production phase will pick up from, and considerably transform, the unfinished work on the 1985 videotape undertaken by Ms. Atteyyat El Abnoudy, a renowned Egyptian filmmaker and human right activist, who will come as a visiting scholar to campus to produce the film in connection with our award-winning Cooperative Video Group led by Mr. Frank Fillio.