IDLE BY THE SEA
video by Kinda Hassan
Credits
Director : Kinda Hassan
Text written by Kinda Hassan and Lina Attalah
Camera and Editing: Kinda Hassan
Music: Nada el Shazly
Color Grading and Editing Consultancy: Louly Seif
Sound editing and mixing: Adham Zidan
Production : Kinda Hassan for YAZAN
Support: The Arab Fund for Art and Culture
“We’re covered with impermeable skin and our eyes are turned outwards. How easy it is to forget what we’re made of. Events of loss remind us that we are our body while our body isn’t only our own.” - Kinda Hassan
Shot in the Fayoum Western desert and the Red Sea coast in Egypt, and the volcanic Greek island of Nisyros among other places, this film is weaved by a quest to the unknown, where memory seldom interferes, to which the spirit is drawn. A quest in which the material world whispers the way to the dark rooms of the immaterial world.
“A poetic tour de force exploring how life and death meet in the folded depths of the waters. It moves across eerie landscapes from the silent Mediterranean, where Egyptair MS804 disappeared in 2016 with all its passengers, to the interiors of the filmmaker’s own body and the phenomena of childbirth.” (Laura U. Marks for the Millenium Film Journal)
GALLERY
technical details
Format: Color, 16:9 , 1920x1080, 25p
Length: 19 minutes 50 seconds
Languages: Arabic and French with English Subtitles
LOCAL Touring
2017 - BEIRUT - Beirut Cinema Days
INTERNATIONAL TOURING
2018 - PARIS - Panorama des cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient
2018 - VIENNA - “Bodycheck” - mumok museum
2017 - NEW YORK - Millennium Film Journal 66
2017 - PARIS - 15° Festival international Signes de Nuit
2017 - PRAGUE - 21ST JI.HLAVA International Documentary Film Festival
2017 - ITALY - Lago Film Festival - “Disorientation” - Revine Lago
2017 - GERMANY - 63. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2017 - EGYPT - Cairo Cinema Days
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