Crystal Ball glances into the future only to find it looks just like yesterday. Light spreads in unique ways through the cracked body of Magdy’s camera, rendering time collapsing on the black-and-white images by providing infinite gradations of grey.
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. -
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 like an u -
The Dent
Infused with melancholic tones, a story of collective belief in the face of hopelessness. An unknown city prepares to host the Olympics. -
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 outskirts of Cairo. -
A 240 Second Analysis of Failure and Hopefulness (with Coke, Vinegar and other Tear Gas Remedies)
Employing household liquids used as teargas remedies in the Middle East, bold stains obstruct the clarity of vision in the double slide projection wor -
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
Film details
- Country of production
- Egypt
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- File
