Fixed Ideas Yousef al-Mohaimeed Jo Mazelis’ singular vision and

Jo Mazelis’ singular vision and poetic language creates characters caught up in events and feelings they do not fully understand or control

the speaking of native languages abroad

Bewketu Seyoum

and the complexity and multiplicity of gender itself is revealed

being a woman

Fixed Ideas Yousef al-Mohaimeed Jo Mazelis’ singular vision andFixed Ideas is a restless and effective tale of desire, gender and longing, about fundamental loneliness and the constant, gnawing awareness that threatens our ability to encounter one another as the person we really are. The story of a young woman and a slightly older man, both working at a newspaper in Oslo, who have a one night stand. Fixed Ideas explores how their relationship and perception of each other develops in the aftermath.