Team Taliban
Benjamin Kegan
2008
Categories:
Documentary, Films in Competition, Short Films
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Run time:
12 min.
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Film Format:
Digital Video
Adeel Alam, a devout Muslim-American and professional wrestler, struggles to find a balance between his faith and his wrestling career. However, in order to advance in the world of wrestling he must enact the troubling stereotype of a Terrorist.
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This short film is a perfect illustration of the ideas contained in Roland Barthes' famous essay from the early 1960s called "The World of Wrestling." Found in his book "Mythologies," the essay describes wrestling as pure theater, emphasizing the desire of the audience to center its attention on the "bad guy" characters. The "good guy" wrestler characters are all generic, interchangeable, essentially faceless. It's the 'bad guys' everyone goes to cheer/jeer at. In this film, a young Muslim American walks an edgy line by depicting a character that might be too easy to hate, for some Americans. The film would be a starting point for many excellent conversations about race, identity, archetypal characters, and sports in the American body politic. Remember, he whispers, "It's a show."
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