CAIRO - 27 April 2017: A video art project entitled “Sleeping in the City” will be screened Friday at Darb 1718, a cultural center in Coptic Cairo.
Filmed in Egypt, the video has no dialogue. “It considers how people and animals live side by side in Cairo, urban life thrusting the same challenges upon them,” director Mzung told Egypt Today in an interview via Facebook.
Mzung, a Vietnamese filmmaker and journalist, has been in Egypt for the past year to shoot the video. She believes her project “raises questions regarding the deterioration of the environment, and challenges viewers to confront their attitudes towards this.”
“We can all find ourselves 'sleeping in the city', but some may have to look harder than others,” she said.
Asked if she found her experience of shooting an art video without dialogue challenging, Mzung replied that it was her second experience, explaining that there are “so many languages... to connect the feeling about art.” She added, “I've been very lucky to work with artists who share my instincts and feelings about this piece of video-art.”
Mzung finds a resemblance between Egypt and her home country, Vietnam, in things such as history and the pollution changing everything. She believes she can be creative and “find herself” in such countries.
The 20-minute project will be screened Friday at 8 p.m. on three big screens at Darb 1718 in Cairo. The Vietnamese filmmaker is planning to take the art video to be screened in other countries.
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