Third Vision: Around 1:00 pm by Khaled Hafez
Egypt
7 min | 2008
Egypt
7 min | 2008
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Khaled Hafez uses archival photographs from his family album, photographs he has collected along his way as a developing artist as well as film footage, some extracted from VHS-recorded TV material and/or the Internet, isolated from its original context, and assembled in a new way to create a personal narrative.
The modern social and military history of Egypt forms the principal structure of the work; in the second video, the artist uses historical footage of the assassination of Sadat which happened when he was 18. The use of stock photographs, images, and audio in this assemblage creates a hybrid story that actually took place in the artist’s real life.
International group shows include: 12th Cairo Biennale (Cairo, Egypt, 2010), Manifesta 8 (Murcia, Spain, 2010); IN/FLUX: Awkward Conversations, The 17th New York African Film Festival, New Museum (New York, USA, 2010); The Present Out of the Past Millennia, Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany, 2007).
Filmography: Dwelling (The Path of Someone Who Dwelled in the Past (2010), The A77A Project (On Presidents & Superheroes) (2009), Visions of a Contaminated Memory (2007), Revolution (experimental, 2006), The Red Crown (documentary, 2005), Idlers' Logic (experimental feature, 2003).
The Film
Third Vision: Around 1:00 pm is a video and audio collage split for four-channel video projection. The work is a nostalgic narrative of visuals that the artist has kept in his memory and that to the present day have shaped his artistic practice.Khaled Hafez uses archival photographs from his family album, photographs he has collected along his way as a developing artist as well as film footage, some extracted from VHS-recorded TV material and/or the Internet, isolated from its original context, and assembled in a new way to create a personal narrative.
The modern social and military history of Egypt forms the principal structure of the work; in the second video, the artist uses historical footage of the assassination of Sadat which happened when he was 18. The use of stock photographs, images, and audio in this assemblage creates a hybrid story that actually took place in the artist’s real life.
The Filmmaker
Khaled Hafez was born in Cairo in 1963 and lives and works in his birth city. From 1981 until 1990 Hafez attended evening classes at the Cairo Fine Arts Academy while studying medicine. He attained a MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute at Danube University Krems, Austria in 2009.International group shows include: 12th Cairo Biennale (Cairo, Egypt, 2010), Manifesta 8 (Murcia, Spain, 2010); IN/FLUX: Awkward Conversations, The 17th New York African Film Festival, New Museum (New York, USA, 2010); The Present Out of the Past Millennia, Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany, 2007).
Filmography: Dwelling (The Path of Someone Who Dwelled in the Past (2010), The A77A Project (On Presidents & Superheroes) (2009), Visions of a Contaminated Memory (2007), Revolution (experimental, 2006), The Red Crown (documentary, 2005), Idlers' Logic (experimental feature, 2003).
