Existence

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Existence, is a 2005 Egyptian movie. with a runtime of 10 minutes.

Overview

Wogood (Existence) is an Egyptian documentary born from a reading of Youssef Idris's philosophical text I Am the Sultan of the Law of Existence. The film follows a five-day expedition across Egypt's Western Desert, traversing 2,800 km from north to south and accumulating 35 hours of footage. What begins as a physical journey evolves into a profound existential inquiry, with the desert's vast silence amplifying the text's meditation on the relationship between man, nature, and the cosmos. The landscape becomes an active force — stripping away distractions and confronting the traveller with the most fundamental questions of being.

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