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Mohammad Shawky Hassan

Wa 'ala Sa'eeden Akhar

Vidéo expérimentale | mov | couleur | 24:0 | Egypte | 2015

And on a Different Note is a navigation of an attempt to carve out a personal space amid an inescapable sonic shield created primarily by prime time political talk shows with their indistinguishable, absurd and at times undecipherable rhetoric/ noises. Equally repulsive and addictive, these noises travel across geographies gradually constituting an integral part of a self-created map of exile.

Mohammad Shawky Hassan studied philosophy, film directing and cinema studies at The American University in Cairo, The Academy of Cinematic Arts & Sciences and Columbia University. His films include balaghany ayyoha al malek al sa’eed/ it was related to me (2011), On a Day like Today (2012) and Wa Ala Sa’eeden Akhar/ And on a Different Note (2015). He presented film programs at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, The New York Public Library and UnionDocs, and was running the Network of Arab Arthouse Screens (NAAS)till 2016.