Still from The Taste of Displacement by Dena El-Deeb (Photo: event Facebook page)
Three short films will be screened on 27 January at Darb 1718, as part of its ongoing event Something Else, which has been running since November 2015.
The first film is by established Egyptian artist Khaled Hafez, titled Idlers’ Logic.
The 24-minute film, created in 2003, questions what it’s like to be an “Arab-African and Middle Easterner in a post-September 11 world,” through three actors who interact in a closed space without any verbal dialogue.
The Taste of Displacement by Iraqi artist Dena Al-Adeeb will screen as the second film.
Al-Adeeb’s multilayered work tackles cultural memory through food, as the video documents a performance piece where displaced Iraqis from diverse personal and professional backgrounds are asked to prepare a personal recipe and share it in a collective dinner.
The film runs for 21 minutes and was produced in 2014.
The third and final film of the night is a 69 minute documentary titled Hometown – Mutonia, produced in 2013 by the artists collective Zimmerfrei based in Bolognia and Brussels.
The film looks into Mutonia, an odd village within a village. The hometown to two generations, Mutonia was created at the hands of experimental, rebellious travellers and cyber punks.
The unique village stands as a home that these people come back to, or a stop on the road to raise their children.
Programme:
27 January at 7pm
Darb 1718, Kasr El-Shamaa street, Al Fakhareen, Old Cairo
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