Mohamed Abdelkarim
, 2021
, 8 min
Synopsis: Gazing… Unseeing speculatively envisions a dystopian future scenario of an Egyptian city post-disaster. Floods have taken over the West Sahara, setting off a string of corporate and governmental measures to control the rioting population. The film is based on an interview with an imagined fugitive. Through different positions, ideological turns, and questions on economic sovereignty, the…
Assem Hendawi
, 2022
, 17 min
Synopsis: Everything Under Heaven is a poignant journey through Egypt’s history, encapsulating time as a flux between the old and the new, converging the past and the future. The narrative focuses on the post-1952 era, where a newly formed state seeks to establish itself through grand infrastructural projects that reflect its national cosmology. However, as it…
Maged Nader, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Assem Hendawi
Discussion between curator Ali Hussein AlAdawy with scholar Mariz Kelada, and filmmakers Maged Nader, Mohamed AbdelKarim, and Assem Hendawi. Maged Nader, Graduated from the High Cinema Institute in Egypt in 2011. He directed several short films; including “Fathy doesn’t live here anymore”, and “Most of what Follows is true” which both premiered in Berlinale Forum…
Larissa Sansour
, 2012
, 12 min
Through this intimate and fictionalized dinner, an impossible happening becomes real. The work explores cultural fabrications and similarities in a non-mediated moment outside the Western gaze – even if the space it seeks is invariably conditioned by it. This work was initially a 3-channel video installation.
Marwa Benhalim
, 2020
The Devil’s Recipe is a collaboration between Andrea Nones-Kobiakov and Marwa Benhalim – a playful view of the nonsensicality within political discourses. Mundane everyday objects, actions, ingredients, and utterances emphasize the redundant and useless nature of propagandistic speeches. The reality in the spoken words is mixed to create new fictions, proverbs, idioms, and linguistic manipulations…
Alia Yunis
, 2019
, 85 min
The Golden Harvest is a 6,000-year old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the profound, often troubled, relationship between olive trees and the people of Mediterranean, including Palestinian father.
Pegah Pasalar
My childhood was marked by documentations of a lot of firsts. My family, sharing my aunt’s lone mini-DV camcorder among their whole big group, has decided what the pivotal moments to be captured for me were. I have often asked myself, “Who were they capturing these moments for?” Remembering my grandfather’s ID, with no birthdate…
Mounira Al Solh
, 43 min
The artist spent 24 hours with each of four women—Rogine, Waad, Hanin, and Zeina—in the cities where they now live: Zutphen, Oslo, Washington DC, and Sharjah respectively. All four of them cannot live anymore in their countries of origin, Syria and Lebanon. Together, they share a moment of cooking, rolling on the floors of their…
Suneil Sanzgiri
, 11 min
In 1961, fourteen years after India gained independence from Britain, the Indian Armed Forces defeated the last remaining Portuguese colonizers in the newly formed state of Goa. The artist’s father was eighteen at the time, and had just moved away from his small village of Curchorem to Bombay for school when news reached him about…
Basma al-Sharif
, 2007
In an empty room, a slideshow projection of abandoned places plays alongside the narrative of two girls who find themselves on the shores of a pre-apocalyptic paradise. Told through subtitle text that weaves fact and fiction together, the story of a massacre unfolds. When the image and text malfunction and the story is no longer…
