LIGHT UPON LIGHT (ethnographic film)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
—A search for light, healing and love in a time of darkness. Documentary, 78 min, Hassala Films and Persona Film, Cairo–Aarhus 2022 Directed by Christian Suhr, produced by Hala Lotfy Written and edited by: Muhammad Mustapha and Christian Suhr Filmed by: Christian Suhr, Amira Mortada, and Muhammad Mustapha FILM FESTIVALS, AWARDS, DEBATES, CONFERENCES —CPH:DOX 2022, World Premiere, Nordic Competition —Cairo IFF 2022, International Premiere, Critics Competition —Athens Ethnographic Film Festival 2022 (Opening film) —Ethnokino Bern 2022 (master class about the film) —Amsterdam Ethnographic Filmday, Vrije Universiteit 2022 —Practices, Aesthetics and Entanglements Conference, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters 2022 (screening and debate about the film) —Arabian Nights Festival, Cinemateque, Copenhagen, August 2022 (screening and debate about the film) —The Mariam Mosque, Copenhagen, 2022 (screening and debate about the film) —DMJX School of Media and Journalism, 2022 (screening and debate about the film) —European Film College, 2022 (screening and debate about the film) —Jean Rouch International Film Festival, Paris, “Mention speciale des laboratoires de recherche / Immersion du regard”, Immersive filmmaking competition, Special Mention, May 2023 —Ethnocineca, festival screening, Vienna, main programme, May 2023 —Freiburger Filmforum, festival screening and master class, May 2023 —FIFEQ Montreal, festival screening, May 2023 —FIFEQ Ville de Quebec, festival screening, May 2023 —Mind & Life Europe Conference, ESRi, Pisa, Screening and debate, August 2023 —NAFA Film Festival, Copenhagen, festival screening, August 2023 —Tripoli Film Festival, festival screening, September 2023 —MESA FilmFest, Middle East Studies Association, Festival screening, Montreal, November 2023 —AAA, SVA Film Festival, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 2023 —American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Screening and panel debate about the film, November 2023 —Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Bayt Al-Sinnari, Film Screening and Debate, December 2023 —Dhaka International Film Festival, festival screening, January 2024 —Jean Rouch-hors-les murs festival, de Tunis (IRMC), Tunisian Cinémathèque, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, festival screening, February 2024 REVIEWS AND PRESS —”Danish director and anthropologist Christian Suhr’s feature documentary offers a respectful yet compelling peek into the surprisingly diverse communities of Sufi worshippers within the Islamic tradition of Egypt.” Film Verdict, review article by Deborah Young: thefilmverdict.com/light-upon-light/ —”Light and mysticism” (58 min radio interview, first of two episodes), Danish Broadcast Radio dr.dk/lyd/p1/pilgrim-pa-rejse-i-troens-univers/pilgrim-lys-og-mystik —“Et mystisk lys” (“Mystical light”, feature article about the background for the film), Kristeligt Dagblad (nation-wide newspaper), kristeligt-dagblad.dk/liv-og-sjael/et-mystisk-lys-i-vanloese-og-usynlige-aander-i-cairo-blev-afgoerende-christian-suhrs?fbclid=IwAR1HYMOsClruG1RS2wfOkU3AEzoworKmvYMCSCEcMFDKY_zjYB2LDCIwFdo —”Light upon light” (58 min radio interview, 2nd of two episodes), DR P1, Danish Broadcast Radio, dr.dk/lyd/p1/pilgrim-pa-rejse-i-troens-univers/pilgrim-lysvaeld-bag-ved-lysvaeld —ماتت زوجته فاستنارت روحه… ثلاثة مخرجين يبحثون عن المعنى والصوفية Raseef, Egyptian Journal, Review Article, raseef22.net/article/1090866-ماتت-زوجته-فاستنارت-روحه-أربعة-مخرجين-يبحثون-عن-المعنى-والصوفية?fbclid=IwAR3ZKOgi1qsNioNk8Rj54XFZhv3Yu1UXj1hUckgZnMI-T5ijQRWgZdZuZBY —من جمله ماىده الرحمن ل فىلم وثاىقي نور علا نور يناقش الفكر الروحانى في مهرجان القاهره السىنماى Haven Magazine, haveneg.com/114302/ —“Searching for the meaning of light in a road movie,” Al-Qahira, Safaa Elias Haggag, Review article, m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02QU9TCSr9uRqNcaJBSUCbydpxFSGTk52LJAmwSJNSDvSWaDc8TpXhMGaKpeZ25Yggl&id=820354516&sfnsn=scwspwa&mibextid=RUbZ1f FEATURING Ramy Dozy Sami Soliman Ahmad Abdullah Haj Mohammad Abdel Aziz Fayed Mohamed Fayed Hussein al-Sharnouby Muhammad al-Manfaloti Omar El-Rakhawi Sonia Hassan Aya El Hosseiny Shaykh Hussaini Nayera Attahawi Magda Attallah Maher al-Sharnouby Magda Habshey DISTRIBUTION —MAD distribution (MENA region): mad-distribution.film/movies/movie1115395.php —Documentary Educational Resources, DER (North America): store.der.org/light-upon-light-p1084.aspx —Para:Dox (Denmark): paradox.dk/film/light-upon-light/ TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/680959384
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.070 | 0.009 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".