The second season of our long-running research based programme, Revisiting Memory, continues this month. The project is in some ways an experimental one, focusing on questions surrounding the film archives—as both practice and theory—in an attempt to widen the conversation about cinema, ownership of history, and the veracity of contentious narratives.

Revisiting Memory draws from material currently present in Cimatheque's archival collection, in addition to a number of external sources. The project features works produced by the mainstream, commercial Egyptian cinema, alongside advertisements, newsreels, and other film-related ephemera. However, special attention is be paid to material created on the margins of society, and the various meanings they represent: amateur footage and home videos, rushes or unedited versions of documentaries and newsreels, and so on. It is hoped that the inclusion of different languages and aesthetics will help envision an alternative visual history, and unconventional reading of the past.

The programme this time includes specially curated screenings of different archival pieces, in addition to never before seen documentary and newsreel footage we have been able to digitize onsite at Cimatheque. The screenings will also include films by notable filmmakers Niazi Mustafa, Ali Badrkhan, Atteyat El Abnoudy, Hossam Ali, Ehab Shaker, Mohamed Khan, Ra’fat El Mihi, amongst others.

For more info and details about the programme, visit the facebook link below