Conscious Gazing - Amin Saleh

Amin Saleh occupies his day with writing. You cannot see him without a project he is working on. In his interview with Abdelwahab Al-Arid, Amin says about one of his motivations for writing cinema: “To encourage the viewer to watch films from other angles, from another perspective, from different levels of knowledge, so that the viewer becomes a positive interactor and not a passive recipient who consumes what is presented to him without questioning or interrogation. Or perhaps the motivation was a personal exercise in analysis and criticism, and as an incentive to understand the concepts, visions and theories presented. It seems to me that everyone who loves cinema and is passionate about it, whether watching or practicing it, is overcome by the desire to write about it, about its films, directors or actors.”

In this answer, we read a vast horizon that extends over decades, during which Amin Saleh was a pioneer in exploring the global cinematic scene. He went beyond the usual and commercially and consumerist scheme, and ran within the limits of what was expected, or what made this expected and placed it on the necks of the masses.

From this different horizon came Amin Saleh and his unique cinematic writings. He became one of the most prominent actors in the critical cinema scene. His books, which have been flowing since the nineties of the last century until the moment of the ninth Saudi Film Festival, the moment he received the honor he deserved, testify to this.