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Jewel
by Hassan Khan
Egypt 2010, 6’30’
Original Format: 35mm video transferred to Full HD video, sound
Film presented at Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2017
Original soundtrack: Hassan Khan con Ahmed Mahamed Abd El Rahman, Shehta Abd El Aziz
Director of Photography: Marwan Saber scenografia Hussein Baydoun
Arrangement: Walid Mostafa, Hassan Khan ingegnere del suono Bassem Shahine
Director of Photography: Marwan Saber scenografia Hussein Baydoun
Arrangement: Walid Mostafa, Hassan Khan ingegnere del suono Bassem Shahine
Score recorded at El Araby Music
Executive producer: Nadine Khan luci Hany Zaneyta production manager Mohamed Saad
Executive producer: Nadine Khan luci Hany Zaneyta production manager Mohamed Saad
A brief moment on the street where two men were dancing in front of a makeshift speaker with a pulsing light attached to it, was the starting point for this piece originally shot on 35mm film and then transferred to HD Video. At the beginning of Jewel, mysterious lights emanate from a fish gliding through the depths of a black sea before transforming into artificial lights embedded on a rotating speaker around which two men are dancing. The music accompanying the piece, composed by the artist, is not only what the characters are dancing to but is also, maybe, what they are, in a sense, producing. Is this the space of located history or the transformation of culture?
Hassan Khan is an artist, musician and writer. He lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. Khan performs his music regularly in major museums, music festivals and venues such as the Louvre in Paris, Guggenheim NY , IN TON AL Music Festival in Malmo, Whitechapel in London, and MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin. He has published texts in Arabic and English, including: Nine Lessons Learned from Sherif El-Azma (Cairo 2009) and Twelve Clues (Mousse Publishing 2016), his first sci-fi novella. He won the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist of the 57th Venice Bienniale 2017, where at the Giardino delle Vergini he presented the sound installation Composition for a Public Park 2013/2017. Among his recent solo shows: the Beirut Art Center (2016), the Museum of Modern Art MMK (Frankfurt 2015), Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (Cairo 2015), SALT (Istanbul 2012). He has participated in numerous Biennials and international exhibitions including recently the Biennial of Montreal (2016), the Sharjah Biennial (2015), the Liverpool Biennial (2014), the New Museum Triennial, New York (2012) and dOCUMEN TA 13 (2012).
Selected Filmography
2015 The Slapper and the Cap of Invisibility 2012 Blind Ambition 2010 Muslimgauze R.I.P., The Dead Dog Speaks, GBRL 2008 G.R.A.H.A.M. 2002 Transition
2015 The Slapper and the Cap of Invisibility 2012 Blind Ambition 2010 Muslimgauze R.I.P., The Dead Dog Speaks, GBRL 2008 G.R.A.H.A.M. 2002 Transition