Nadim Bahsoun

Cairography is a dance/performance video. Before it took an artistic form, Cairography was a set of fragments of conversations and stories of two non-Egyptian women friends whose relationship with Cairo ranged between paranoia over feeling constantly surveilled and nonchalance as a performance of resistance. It then grew to become an assortment of testimonials from strangers in the street and friends of the artists where issues of loss of personal space, sexual harassment, respect of privacy and shattered anonymity in public space have emerged.

Dans les années 50, la jeune Alice quitte la Suisse pour le Liban, contrée ensoleillée et exubérante. Là-bas, elle a un coup de foudre pour Joseph, un astrophysicien malicieux qui rêve d'envoyer le premier libanais dans l'espace. Alice trouve vite sa place dans la famille de ce dernier. Mais après quelques années de dolce vita, la guerre civile s'immisce dans leur paradis...

The director turns the diary of his sexual adventures into a serial narrative in the style of “One Thousand and One Nights”. This polyamorously-minded queer musical applies the same playful approach to folk tales as it does to Egyptian pop music.