A 240 Second Analysis of Failure and Hopefulness (with Coke, Vinegar and other Tear Gas Remedies)
A double slide projection illustrates the necessary destruction that takes place on sites of construction. Using teargas remedies used by revolutionaries in the Middle East, the photographic processing smears the slides in a mixture of hues to depict a familiar site in an otherworldly place.
Also in this combined programme
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13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World
‘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
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
Using household chemicals for photographic processing, bold colours and smears cover the slides of Lanzarote’s barren landscape that appears
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The Dent
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
Diogenes of Sinope carried a lamp in the daytime to ‘look for an honest man.’ Magdy’s father reenacts the gesture in the outskirt
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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 imag
Film details
- Country of production
- Egypt
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- File
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