The 9th edition of the Cairo Video Festival will be launched at Cinema Zawya with a public screening of one of the festival’s programs titled Peripheral Vision at 7pm on Monday, 9th of September 2019.
A total of 101 works from over 30 countries are featured in this
edition, which includes individual artists, collectives, the outcome of creative
writing workshop Butterflies Are Not Drawn to Light and 4 commissioned works.
Video works featured in the 9th edition are produced after January 2017. All
videos have Arabic and English subtitles wherever intended.
The 9th edition of the Cairo Video Festival consists of 9 programs, each
program contains a selection of videos that will be screened and installed
across the city, in addition to the online showcase. Screenings will be screened
amongst venues such as public vitrines, bookstores and community spaces in order
to promote, expand and harvest attention to the practice of video art and
experimental film.
The works in this edition have been nominated and selected by the
festival’s team, as well as the Selection and Programmers Committee, including:
Ahmed Refaat, Alaa Abdelhamid, Islam Kamal, Mai Elwakil, Mona Gamil, Sarrah
Abdelrahman and 96 negative. The 9th edition contains reflections and input from
contributors including Islam Shabana, Lara El Gibaly, Marwan Elgamal, Nour El
Safoury, Samir El Kordy and Wael Abdel Fattah.
The 9th Cairo Video Festival is organized by Medrar and supported by
British Council, DEDI - Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute, the French
Institute, Pro Helvetia Cairo, Swiss Arts Council, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Egypt and Elaraby Group.
Words/image: copyright © Cairo Video Festival 2019
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Words/image: copyright © Cairo Video Festival 2019
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