Workshop – Rethinking poor images

A filmmaker whose works investigate the connections between colonialism, technology, capitalism and history. A graduate of London College of Communication, Le Fresnoy – studio national des arts contemporains and the experimental research group “Document and Contemporary Art”. His research seeks to formulate an archaeological method within film practice reflecting on animistic materialism. Henderson has shown his work at places such as; Rotterdam International Film Festival, CPH:DOX, New York Film Festival, The Kiev Biennial 2015, The Centre Pompidou, Louisiana museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern and Tate Britain. In 2015 he was the recipient of the Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Video Artist at the 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, and a European Short Film Award – New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland. His work is distributed by Lux (UK) and Video Data Bank (USA).

An award winning documentary filmmaker and author, Where his works have a dreamlike notion, overlapping fiction and reality by it’s direct respond to the surrounding and closeness to everyday experiences. Marouan constantly moving on the boundary between documentary and art film, which attracted much attention to his work, not least in several major academic conferences and film festivals. His last film CROP was a huge success.
He currently works as an adjunct professor for film production at the American University in Cairo. Omara was a co-founder & the managing director for the Cairo Industry Forum a parallel program to the Cairo International Film Festival, 2014.
Omara has shown his work at places such as; International Film Festival Rotterdam. Yamagata international documentary film festival. Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, DokLeipzig, Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival, Global aCtIVISm – Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe,The strike of Tanta linen factory at the headquarters of the Federation Workers, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, British Film Institute, Discover Arab Cinema Program. His work is distributed by Arsenal Institut Für Film und Videokunst e.v. Berlin (GERMANY) and TETRAKTYS FILMS LTD (CYPRUS).

02:46

By Hend Samir

On Monday evenings they gather around under the dome in their sanctuary.

In a perfect circle they arrange their sitting. With one child, standing in the center, holding the majestic rope with both of his hands. The child spins around blinded by a glare reflection of the rope, while everyone is humming synchronously.

One Monday evening a little girl stepped into the center of the circle and the ritual began. After hours of spinning, the girl unexpectedly dropped the rope. The moment the rope touched the floor the humming stopped, leaving the room in silence, except for the sound of the scattering rope.

05:55 min

By Hend Moaaz

In 2000 social media platforms were not widely spread like nowadays, people used alternative methods to reach each other like letters, trying to defeat distance, time, abandonment etc. but sometimes virtual communication is not enough to keep the relation effective for a long term, such like motherhood and fatherhood relations.

This video is a part of an ongoing project mainly based on relations, virtual communication and found letters, This video is based on a found letter was intentionally meant to be a birthday card which was sent by an artist’s father’s family member in 2000; the artist had found the letter after 16 years. In the video she tries to reply it in an ironic way in which she spots on certain points like abandonment, absence and nonsense.

00:09:48

By Malak Yacout

Random-Intuitive Organizations of Absent Minded Scribbles is an imagined documentary video for a pseudo scientific experiment that is both real and fictitious. The video synchronizes documentation samples from older experiments with the scripted voices of actors playing the roles of actual volunteers, scientists and narrators in A Priori Markings’ pseudo scientific experiment.

8:17

By Marguerite Farag

After finding an intriguing photograph in the Friday Flea Market, the filmmaker sets on learning more about the picture the only way she knows how… Google.

05:00

By Marwa Benhalim

In 2003 Benhalim’s father went on a business trip to Sudan, the artist was only 11 at the time.

Retold to her in bedtime stories, moving between utopic reiteration of reality and a childish spin. In 2016 she found footage taken by her father on the trip, her first real visual

understanding of the now mystical journey. Nile Perch is a re-imagination of the trip through

the integration of the original footage with the Teletubies’ landscape, stitched together with

the voice of a young girl narrating the story as if it were her own. The intertwines memory and

reality while discussing labor, globalization and capital.