Egyptian Timelines 3
In the past year, images – professional and amateur – of the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and other cities in Egypt have filled the newspapers, and our TV and computer screens. How can we contextualise what we are seeing, and place those images within a larger socio-historical, visual and cultural context? These are the questions we aim to address in the Egyptian Timelines programme.
In this combined programme
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Rant
Developed through a series of intense workshops with an actress, the film investigates the psyche of an unspecified cultural operator – perha
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Doors of Fear: El Naddaha
Doors of Fear is the first horror drama series in the Arab world. Dealing with different folkloric tales of horror from the Egyptian culture, the s
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The A77A Project
The work is a 2-D and 3-D animation of a figure of the ancient gods, Anubis. A figure that dwells in the streets of urban Cairo today, interminglin
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Revolution
An experimental screen is split into the three colors of the flag – Red, White and Black – which represent the three promises of the 19
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Rice City
Beautifully crafted suspense in this stylish, black-and-white experimental Egyptian short that features a strong score by Nahla Mattar.
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In Search of a City (in the Papers of Sein)
Idler Sein’s perambulations become a layered declaration of love to the city of Cairo. Shot before, but edited after the Egyptian revolution.
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Crumbled Papers, Fragments of Cinema
Inspired by Indian film stars on glass plate negatives from the thirties, this video- installation invites visitors to recall personal stories of l
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Taste Test
A girl with no front teeth and a fairground skeleton sway to a sad ballad. There are doubts about both their charms.