/si:n/ Festival of Video Art and Performance – Second Edition

The Princess, 3min, 2009

Asmaa and Hind El kolaly

In The Princess, El Kolely explores the concept of the sacrifice as an offering of an animal or the surrender of something treasured or the loss of a valuable entity. 

Bio 

Twin sisters born in 1985.Studied in the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University. Their artwork is the result of shared thoughts that tackles issues concerned with the identity and the society. El Kolely’s work has been exhibited in several local and international exhibitions.

A Letter to A Lover, 2min, 2007

Shereen Lotfey

“And immediately I started to load the guns and rifles with gunpowder and Firady helped me with it….” 

Bio 

Born in Cairo in 1987, Shereen studied Applied Arts faculty, Graphic department. Shereen lives and works in Cairo, In her art work, takes on subjects that aggravates her and those around her, and she deals with it directly which translated into an art work that communicates with the person watching it, so that the user would interact with it, A video is to be used to reach the audience by all possible means. She has participated in many  international exhibitions and events.

Kekh, 6 min, 2007

Hosam Elsawah

Trivial story telling by an extraordinary person reflects the mixed up consequences of his surroundings.

Bio

Born in 1984 Cairo, he Graduated from Faculty of Art Education , Helwan University. He he participated many international exhibitions and frstivals such as The Bidon Artists Cinema ” Art Dubai Festival” 2007, DV theque project of meeting points 5,2007.

Don’t Resign, 3:12min, 2008

Ahmed Elshaer

In a recent became accepted among Egyptians is the situation and relax away from liability self direction or the direction of home away from duty and not claim the rights and intercepted a discreet step down and making it all tell them what to Gamal Abdel Nasser, Don’t Resign

Bio

Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1980; lives and works in Egypt.
Ahmed El Shaer is a photographer, video and installation artist. His videos combine a diversity of time-based elements: film, machinema, stock footage, ambient and synthetic sounds as well as three-D animation.

Volume, 1:39min, 2010

Yara Mekawei

In the digital system the master and slave had a harmonic volume tracks.

They said some Sentences which meant many of Conventions in our life. 

Bio 

Born in Cairo, 1987, Graduated from the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan Uni., Cairo.

Works in a visual, audio art, and live electronic music, She interested in make a connection between the abstract symbols and human relations by different ways. Also recently she beginning her new concept about the “Hidden Dynamic Random Access Memory” this concept showed in art projects parts. She wants to create a connection between our memory and what we listen to in our relationships.

Short film “more or less”, 11:20, 2010

Nada Zatouna

Two women.. Director and a young lady working as a lawyer, Working together on a documentary film. Expected delivered in specific date. Time is over and they discovered many things about relationships and passive time.

Bio

Nada Zatouna. Born in Cairo, graduated from the Cairo Jesuit’s cinema school, worked as an assistant director for independent films since 2006. Also she created several short films.

The Trip, 18:47, 2009

Ahmed Nabil

Some footage from my very first trip to Europe, edited with a voice-over from dialogues with two Egyptian friends about some sociopolitical issues.

Bio 

Got his BFA in painting at the faculty of Fine Arts. In Alexandria, Egypt. During his last years in the faculty he got more interested in filmmaking. So got involved in a two years filmmaking workshop that helped him develop some techniques related to shooting and editing. After doing one short narrative film he turned into experimental filmmaking and video art, making a use of his painting background.