Short Special: Basim Magdy

In this combined programme

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  13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  ‘Never try to change anything,’ say tulips with faces. In his parody of educational films, Magdy’s humour has a cynical edge.
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  Crystal Ball

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  A haze of grey covers the screen while sonar beeps echo through. Magdy’s camera looks through a crystal ball to find a familiar future.
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  Investigating the Color Spectrum for the Post-Apocalyptic Future Landscape

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Using household chemicals for photographic processing, bold colours and smears cover the slides of Lanzarote’s barren landscape that appears like an u
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  The Dent

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Infused with melancholic tones, a story of collective belief in the face of hopelessness. An unknown city prepares to host the Olympics.
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  My Father Looks for an Honest City

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Diogenes of Sinope carried a lamp in the daytime to ‘look for an honest man.’ Magdy’s father reenacts the gesture in the outskirts of Cairo.
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  A 240 Second Analysis of Failure and Hopefulness (with Coke, Vinegar and other Tear Gas Remedies)

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  Employing household liquids used as teargas remedies in the Middle East, bold stains obstruct the clarity of vision in the double slide projection wor
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  Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship

  • As Long As It Takes: Short

  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