Panorama: Tech-Myth

In the realm of technology progression and the ability to edit and share footage on a daily basis, does the image lose the value it had or did it transform to a new material for editing and artistic intervention. Did the image now gain a new value that has no connection to reality? Did its role became to engage with myth, as a way to represent the vision of the one who captured and edited it? Are these myths meaningful? Do the engaged people realize that it doesn’t have any relation to reality? Or are we just in a vicious circle that goes deeper in imagination and hallucination?  

Crossover (The Scene)

Director: Ahmed Elshaer
Eqypt, 2017, 7', HDD, color
Arabic with Turkish & English subtitles

Two worlds, two spaces or cross borders - these titles bring us to the same concept about shifting between environments.

Deeply Absurd Lucidity

Director: Sammy Sayed
Eqypt 2017, 7', HDD, color
Arabic with Turkish & English subtitle

A man trapped in a limbo of absurd and randomly projected visions that seem to be driven by an obscure shapeshifter who has hacked into his mental and emotional intelligence.

The Caller AKA -EL Nadaha

Director: Muhammad Taymour
Eqypt, 2017, 8', HDD, color
No Dialogue

The “Nadaha” is a woman used to appear at night in the Egyptian countryside to sing with a very sweet voice and call the men in that country, they get seduced by her voice and go to their unknown destination. 

The video is a symbolic surreal simulation for the inner voices inside all of us (represented by the Nadaha voice during the video) and this woman is calling for 4 types of characters but they don’t obey her and they are struggling to go with the voice.

Flowmaster

Director: Nevien Emam
Eqypt, 2017, 4', HDD, color
No Dialogue 

Motion is the opposite of silence which is the difference between any motion and other and it is one scene when it is silence. Recording a certain moment missing what’s before it, neglecting what is after it. If the scene moved it will show another timing away from its recorded moment; to become thanks to the motion a new composition of a silent scene.

It seems that I need a choreographer 

Director: Eman Zahran
Eqypt, 2017, 5', HDD, color
Arabic with Turkish & English subtitle

Seems like I am in a need for a professional dancer 
Seems like I am in a need for a dancer 
Seems like I am in a need for 
Seems like I am in 
Seems like I am 
Seems

The Current Cube 

Director: Hend Moaaz
Eqypt, 2017, 6’', HDD, color
English with Turkish & Arabic subtitle

“A fake Investigation about non-understandable wall writings; which based on objective and subjective hypotheses.” 

The Image of Man

Director: Soheir Sharara
Eqypt, 2017, 4', HDD, color
English with Turkish & Arabic subtitle 

“Seeing comes before words [...] The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” John Berger, Ways of Seeing.

The Aesthetics of Being

Director: Samuel Nashaat
Eqypt, 2017, 6', HDD, color
Arabic with Turkish & English subtitle 

Existing of something/someone means that it has been produced through a very well designed process that combined three aesthetics. First one is called (flow) or to unconsciously be. The second is (Rhythm), or to ensure the product’s longevity, please abide by its preset daily routine. Third is (Contrast) following a set of methods, terms and orders as well as competitively fighting for the standards.