A friend in Cairo gave Danish anthropologist Christian Suhr a good piece of advice: stop focusing on the darkness in the world and look at the light instead. Suhr takes the advice and travels through Egypt to understand what light means to the people he meets along the way.
Christian Suhr
Christian Suhr is a filmmaker and professor of anthropology at Aarhus University. His research has focused on experiences of spirit possession, psychiatric illnesses, religious healing, and how film can be used to approach unseen dimensions of human life. He is the director and author of the award-winning film and book ’Descending with angels’ (MUP 2019,www.descendingwithangels.com), and the award-winning films ‘Ngat is dead’ (2009, with Ton Otto and Steffen Dalsgaard) and ‘Unity through culture’ (2011, with Ton Otto). His latest film is ‘Light upon light’ (2022).