Film: Before I Forget
by Mariam Mekiwi
Short Fiction, 2018, Egypt/Germany, 31 min, Arabic with English ST
A science-fiction story set in an indistinct coastal region, between land and sea, above and below water. The film just received the First Steps Award of the German Film Academy.
EUME Discussion
Thu 17 Jan 2019 | 19:30–22:00
Thu 17 Jan 2019 | 19:30–22:00
Egyptian Realities and the Cinema of the Absurd
Film screening and discussion: Before I Forget by Mariam Mekiwi & The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometer 375 by Omar El-Zohairy
Werkstatt der Kulturen, Wissmannstraße 32, 12049 Berlin
Film: The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometer 375
by Omar El-Zohairy
Short Fiction, 2014, Egypt, 18 min, Arabic with English ST
The title of this story is telling enough and indeed it was adapted from a short story by Kafka. The question remains: Has Kafka anything to do with Surrealism?
Guests:
Mariam Mekiwi, born in 1987 in Alexandria, Egypt, is a filmmaker based in Hamburg. Before I Forget is her first film.
Ana Teixeira Pinto is a writer and cultural theorist based in Berlin. She is a lecturer at the DAI (Dutch Art Institute) and a research fellow at Leuphana University, Lüneburg. Her writings have appeared in publications such as Afterall, Springerin, Camera Austria, e-flux journal, art-agenda, Mousse, Frieze, Domus, Inaesthetics, Manifesta Journal, or Texte zur Kunst. She is the editor of The Reluctant Narrator (Sternberg Press, 2014) and, together with Eric de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken of a forthcoming book series on counter histories, to be published by Sternberg Press.
In cooperation with Mayadin Al-Tahrir e.V. and the Werkstatt der Kulturen