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Deeply Absurd Lucidity - Experimental Short Film

A man trapped in a limbo of absurd and randomly projected visions that seem to be driven by an obscure shapeshifter who has hacked into his mental and emotional intelligence.
.رجل محبوس بداخل حالة من الرؤى العشوائية والعبثية التي تبدو وكأنها مفتعلة من قبل كائن مجهول الهوية

The conceptual intent is to create a film that is viewed from a different perspective and approach than what is aesthetically normal. Creating an atmosphere of uncertainty, tension, and dark humor through grindingly fast information that is metaphorically symbolic to history, knowledge, and culture programmed into the protagonist's mind and emotional intelligence. Creating confusion and corruption in language, majorly and especially between English and Arabic languages as a way to express the complexity of the unconscious and conscious mind perception, especially to anyone who actually knows both languages such as the protagonist. The information in the image and sound of the film is projected in a chaotically ordered way that is hard to follow for the amount of different layered information in the image and sound of the film, hence creating the effect of an alien abduction and/or seeing from the perspective of an alien entity that is hacking/possessing or uniting with the protagonist. The film as a whole is meant to be a metaphoric expression of the process of that unity.

Written and Directed by
Sammy Sayed

Acting
Sammy Sayed

The Hands
Maiam | Mariam | Mena | Rukia | Saber | Amr

Director of Photography
Omar Abou Doma

Additional Photography
Valeria Misko
Sherif Sharkawy
Mena El Shazly

Line Producer
Mahmoud Eissa

Edited by
Ahmed Ezzat and Mohamed El Sherbieny

Color Grading and Visual Effects
Mohamed El Sherbieny

Music and Sound Design
Sammy Sayed

Sound Recording and Mixing by
Ahmad Kubbara

Mask and Crown of IAHHA Designed by
Amor El Etrebi 

Special thanks to
Mohamed Taymour
Sherif Elias 
And he who has countless faces and personas

Filmed in
Cairo, Egypt
Streets of Cairo
The Agricultural Museum
Spring Flowers Display
Medrar for Contemporary Art
South Sinai, Egypt
Underwater in Dahab
Essen, Germany
Krupp Family Cemetery
Villa Hügel

Tech-Myth Workshop 2017 by Medrar for Contemporary Art with the support of DEDI - Danish Egyptian Dialogue institute.


Deeply Absurd Lucidity - Experimental Short Film
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Deeply Absurd Lucidity - Experimental Short Film

An Egyptian short experimental film. About a man trapped in a limbo of absurd and randomly projected visions.

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