| My lens is introduced with the first shot of the cityscape at night, from rooftop, then it continues — through the dashboard or side window | I wanted to make this film in order to take a closer look |
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| I end that scene to encourage questioning the notion of public space | From far away I saw that joyriders contest space in public spaces with a quest for individual identity and fame |
I decided to focus on the hajwalah writers, and very soon after that, I decided to focus on just hajwalah joyriding.
| I shifted my focus because I thought that joyriding in the kingdom is a more urgent story to tell, especially since it had been around for decades and yet had a single state-sociological narrative of it in the mainstream media | I became attracted to the joyriding subculture and wanted to understand it |
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| Rakan himself does not write graffiti, but I was led to his world through the hajwalah graffiti | The side-window lens is surely symbolic in this film |