Elevator by Hadeel Nazmy
Egypt
12 min | 2004
The online presentation of films from „Arab Shorts 2009” on this site ended by 31 December 2011.
A short voyeuristic thriller set in a trapped elevator and conducted via suggestive cell phone calls, The Elevator negotiates the tensions of the ambiguous, grey areas between public and private spaces, repulsion and desire, fear and longing, and seclusion and surveillance.
About the Filmmaker
Born in 1977, Hadeel Nazmy is an artist based in Alexandria, Egypt. Her process-oriented multidisciplinary art projects include videos, films, texts, photography, and site-specific installations that investigate marginalised concepts of the image and the phenomenology of projected imagery. Nazmy’s art addresses issues related to identity, loss, signification and memory, which are born from Egyptian cultural contexts. Her film Elevator has won more than twenty local and international prizes.
Born in 1977, Hadeel Nazmy is an artist based in Alexandria, Egypt. Her process-oriented multidisciplinary art projects include videos, films, texts, photography, and site-specific installations that investigate marginalised concepts of the image and the phenomenology of projected imagery. Nazmy’s art addresses issues related to identity, loss, signification and memory, which are born from Egyptian cultural contexts. Her film Elevator has won more than twenty local and international prizes.
