To Preserve A Revolution
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GPC Online Screen
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To try and preserve a revolution is hard work. It's an investigation in collective memory, an exercise in longing for something unattainable as well as an exploration of a medium’s limit. A limit, they say, cannot be seen, it’s always experienced in retrospect. In a way, this is a programme about a revolution in retrospect.
"To Preserve A Revolution" presents works by five Egyptian filmmakers and artists that look at an event and flirt with the impossibility of representing it. They address the experience of living through such an event as an active participant, a distant witness and a recollector. The works in the programme map affects through diaries, photographs, testimonies, TV archives, mobile phone footage and texts. They seek to explore how memories are kept and how they can be re/membered through the moving image. It’s not a conclusion that they’re after, more like an open investigation for an ongoing historical process that tries to defy forgetfulness.
Text by Ahmed Refaat (Contemporary Image Collective)
Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) is a Cairo based cultural institution with a special interest in the overlap of visual culture, artistic practice and critical discourse. CiC’s activities combine exhibitions, screenings, talks, education and knowledge exchange, research, publications, a public library and a range of image production facilities.
Program
■ SALMA SHAMEL: THOSE THAT TREMBLE AS IF THEY WERE MAD
2017, 11 min.
■ NADA HASSAN: ROOM AT REGION (X)
2017, 12 min.
■ SARAH IBRAHIM: MASTERS OF SLEEP
2017, 13 min.
■ MAHA MAAMOUN: NIGHT VISITOR: THE NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS
2010, 8:30 min.
■ MOHAMMAD SHAWKY HASSAN: AND ON A DIFFERENT NOTE
2015, 24 min