Mohamed Soueid
, 2020
, 170 min
Soueid’s magnus opus, a gargantuan flux that is both timeless and multi-temporal, THE INSOMNIA OF A SERIAL DREAMER amalgamates the past into the present (“a present in the past tense”), and from the schizophrenic streets of Beirut opens onto the world: the world that a Middle East Airlines captain has traveled and now remembers from his patio…
, 2008
, 87 min
Through the story of a son reconstructing his father’s revolutionary past from a diary, Soueid draws a portrait of two generations of men, fathers and sons, who were revolutionaries of the 1970s. This is a poetic flight in time, back to when young men dreamed of changing the world with their own hands, and forward…
, 1998
, 70 min
One of Soueid’s finest and most representative cinematographic achievements, TANGO OF YEARNING melancholically exemplifies the relational essence of his cinema. It is at once a film about love (for cinema, for life and its characters), about Soueid’s work for the Lebanese state broadcaster Tele Liban, and about the mysterious death of the Egyptian Jewish actress Camelia. The…
, 1994
, 41 min
A documentary on the life and ambitions of a young Lebanese cross-dresser, the video follows her journey from soldier to cabaret dancer in an effort to raise funds for her sex change operation. Shot in Beirut, CINEMA FOUAD weaves a complex and multi-layered story of sexuality, identity, and desire, and paints a compelling portrait of its subject….
Maha Maamoun
, 2009
, 62 min
Relying exclusively on footage from Egyptian films that use the pyramids as backdrop, Domestic Tourism II explores the ways in which these iconic historical monuments can be re-appropriated from the “timelessness” of the tourist postcard and reinscribed by the political, social, and historical complexity of their urban landscape.
, 1 min
Most Fabulous Place flips through postcards of Egypt’s main tourist attraction, the Pyramids of Giza, alongside a soundtrack of conversations from various Egyptian films that occur next to these iconic monuments.
Marianne Fahmy
, 2019
, 12 min
After the great flood of the delta, a future oceanographer tells the story of the people’s relocation to the confidential camps in the Sahara desert.
, 2013
, 8 min
Between 2012 and 2013, artist Lara Baladi created the immersive, surround-sound video installation, Don’t Touch Me Tomatoes & Chachacha as a direct response to the ill-concealed misogyny which had been surfacing around the world (and continues to), and which at the time, in Egypt in particular, was amplified by the use of sexual abuse as a counter-revolutionary…
Malak Helmy
, 6 min
In Arabic, Habaa2 is the term used to describe the moment when individual particles of dust become visible to the naked eye. Habaa2’s translation into English renders these four words: Dust; Aerosol; Chaos; Vanity. The video explores a series of events in Cairo in the summer of 2009.
Yto Barrada
, 2011
, 15 min
Barrada digs into her family history and narrates 16 myths based on unreliable narrators and unverifiable stories, illustrated with strangers’ home movies found at flea markets and archival films from the last half-century in Morocco.8
