A Brief Encounter with The Impossible – Screening Program

A screening program curated by Rahma El Haddad. The selected films interweave material from various sources, creating interchangeable conversations between past and present, text and image, meaning and its absence. These works engage with concepts of the archive and critical fabulation, combining historical or literary texts with manipulated archival footage. Through recontextualization and montage, they imagine alternate, impossible realities that suggest new possible lives for the archival material by removing it from its original context and assigning it new meanings, challenging the notion of historical inevitability.

All works were sourced from the archive of Medrar’s Cairo Video Festival, active since 2005 and including submissions from around the world.

The screening is followed by a discussion with Ahmed Refaat.

The screening will take place on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 7 PM

Address: Medrar, 10 Gamal Eldin Abo ElMahsen, 8th floor, Garden City, Cairo

Entry fee: 50 EGP

Visual from The End, by Agnieszka Pokrywka, Poland, 2009