11&12 July 2007
2nd Video Festival
Organized with Medrar for Contemporary Art, this 2-day festival included a series of discussions and screenings of recent low-budget and experimental videos by young artists based on an open call for submissions with works by artists from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Australia, U.S and Denmark. The 1st Video Festival was hosted by CiC in December 2005 during PhotoCairo 3.
A series of discussions and screenings of recent low-budget and experimental videos by young artists based on an open call for submissions.
10 July 2007 at 8pm
Screenings followed by a moderated discussion with artist and filmmaker Sherif El Azma
Open Seas, Behrang Samadzadegean, Iran, 2006, 6 min
Project Untitled, Amr Qenawi, Egypt, 2006, 6 min
Soup Over Bethelehem (Mloukhieh), Larissa Sansour, Denmark/Palestine, 2006, 9 min
Mohamed Abdel Karim, Friendly Animals, Egypt, 2007, 7 min
The Last Scene, Mohamed Harb, Palestine, 2006, 7 min
Pink, Hala Abushady, Egypt, 2007, 7 min
Them-Me, Nisrine Boukhari, Syria, 2007, 3 min
Phases, Ahmed Elssamra, Egypt, 2007, 5 min
Darwin’s Copy Machine, Aaron Oldenberg, USA, 2006, 6 min
11 July 2007 at 8pm
Screenings followed by a moderated discussion with artist Shady El Noshokaty
Versa-Vice, Shareef Sarhan, Palestine, 2006, 9 min
The Holy Project, Mohamed Allam, Egypt, 2007, 15 min
The Jerusalem Project, Sary Zananiri, Australia/Palestine, 2006, 2 min
Visual New Flash, Tania El Khoury, Lebanon, 2005, 10 min
Home, Ahmed El Shaer, 2006, 3 min
Kekh (NO), Hossam El Sawah, Egypt, 2007, 6 min
Even, Ziad Elhalabi, Syria, 2007, 3 min
Organised by Medrar for Contemporary Art and CiC with the support of SEMAT