artSümer will be presenting a film by Basim Magdy (1977, Egypt) at inaugural Moving Image fair. "Time Laughs Back At You Like A Sunken Ship", 2012, 9min. 31 sec. will be viewed at CİBALİ 1 projection room at Haliç Congress Center.
"Time Laughs Back At You Like A Sunken Ship", 2012, Super 8 film transferred to HD, 9min.31sec.
"An enclosed environment of isolated preservation is the setting. A man sits with his mysterious reflective device. What he sees through its eyeholes resembles what is reflected on its surface. Time passes in its own shadow as reality and its representation merge. The man waits for something to happen. A ship dances on the horizon. Intricate ancient ruins and monuments intertwine with failed modern societies. Light leaks through the camera and onto the film, creating a sense of poetic unexpectedness. The protagonist gets bored, stands up and starts walking around in circles. The soundtrack becomes more intense. Nothing happens. He sits down again as night starts falling. The last scene – the longest – shows time consuming itself in its own darkness as a tree swings back and forth."
This video has been screened at the following venues :
2014 SeMa Biennial MEDIACITY Seoul 2014, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul. Curator Chan-kyong Park.
2014 Passerelle Centre d’art Contemporain, Brest, France. Curators: Etienne Bernard and Antoine Marchand.
2014 Conceptual Art Centre Bukovje, Postojna, Sweden.
2013 Tate Modern, London. Curator: Stuart Comer.
2013 Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam. Curators: Omar Kholeif and Peter van Hoof.
2013 Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris. Curators: Jean-Paul Felley and Olivier Kaeser.
2013 The High Line, New York. Curator: Cecilia Allemani.
2013 Future Generation Art Prize – A Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Biennial, Venice. Curator: Björn Geldhof.
2013 PinchukArtCentre, Kiev. Curator: Björn Geldhof.
2013 Askhal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon Curator: Christine Tohme.
2013 State of Concept, ReMap 4, Athens, Greece. Curator: Iliana Fokianaki.
2013 Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France 2013 Curator: Mo Gourmelon.
