Close Encounters: Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 2

Close Encounters: Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 2

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  Filmed in Algiers during the Arab Spring, it refers to the situation of women in the Arab world and questions the idea of revolution. Here, it is a si

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  Home Movies Gaza

  After a ten-year absence, the Gaza Strip is one of the few places Alsharif feels she can call home, as well as one that grows increasingly alienating.

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  Crop

  Crop was shot entirely on location at Al-Ahram, Egypt’s biggest state newspaper. The film reflects on the power of the image during the Egyptian Revol

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  Night Visitor: The Night of Counting the Years

  Night Visitor is a compilation of YouTube clips of citizens breaking into Egyptian sites of power; it documents the recent Egyptian revolution.

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  Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship

  Basim Magdy’s wide range of work extends from painting to filmmaking and photography. He blends fiction with reality by manipulating how images are re

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  At Five in the Afternoon

  A long soliloquy exploring the different fears that are attached to a personal narrative of love and a continuous longing for intensity in life.

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  Gazing at the Catastrophe

  Without looking for a moral or adopting a moralising position towards images of suffering and atrocities or questioning whether we truly have become h

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