EGYPTIAN FILM NIGHT!
curated and introduced by LOULY SEIF
17th July wednesday, 21h30
Programme:
'Al Momia: The Night of Counting the Years'
by Shadi Abdel Salam
Based on a true story and universally recognized as one of the greatest Egyptian films ever made, Al Momia: The Night of Counting the Years in a lyrical meditation on identity. The story revolves around a legendary cache of royal mummies that was unearthed at Deir Al-Bahari in 1881, and the ancient tribe accused of plundering the tomb. The beautifully calibrated ritualistic atmosphere is greatly enhanced by the exteriors, filmed exclusively at dawn and dusk, which lend the film an eerie, evocative quality.
'Night Visitor: The Night of Counting the Years'
by Maha Maamoun
Looking through footage from videos recorded and uploaded on Youtube by the many men and women who broke into Egyptian State Security buildings on 5 March 2011, different narratives of this highly charged political space and moment are encountered. Beyond the first layer of shredded documents and other sought after paraphernalia of this coveted moment, the curious eyes of cell phones expose the psychological space inhabited by both the visitor and the visited.
Both films in Arabic with English subtitles.
duration of the session: 120 min.
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Biographies:
Shadi Abdel Salam was born in Alexandria in 1930 and earned a degree in architecture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo University. Between 1960 and 1967 he designed costumes and set decorations for ten historical Egyptian films. He also participated in designing sets and costumes of epic films such as Cleopatra and Renzo Rosselini's La Lotta dell'Uomo per la Sua Sopravvivenza.
Maha Maamoun’s work burrows through various dominant constructs, whether mental, emotional, literary, cinematic or other, as a means of exploring codified modes of seeing, and how these intersect with and are negotiated by personal experiences. Curatorially, Maamoun has collaborated on several exhibitions, video programs and book projects. She is one of the founding members of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) – an independent non-profit space for contemporary arts and culture founded in Cairo in 2004.
Louly Seif is a filmmaker and a film editor living in Cairo.
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