INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
The Goose's Excuse
Ozr El Wezzah
Directors
Abdo Zin Eldin
Mahdy Abo Bahat
Producers
Abdo Zin Eldin
Mahdy Abo Bahat
Cinematographers
Abdo Zin Eldin
Mahdy Abo Bahat
Editors
Mahdy Abo Bahat
Sound
Mahdy Abo Bahat
Contact
Mahdy Abo Bahat
[email protected]
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2023
Egypt
25 min
Color
A heavenly inquiry lands in a village to inspect the sleep of a peasant and his renegade goose. Led by the hums of a spectral apparatus, the visitation detects esoteric frequencies from a spiritual reality cloaked in the peasant's home and land. A threshold pierced by the gaze of a saint. A whirlwind spun from the faith and hunger of Cairo's City of the Dead.
Director
Mahdy Abo Bahat and Abdo Zin Eldin are artist-filmmakers from Cairo, based between Egypt and the UK. The duo have a 10-year practice rooted in sound and image through audio field recordings and street videography. Their fixation with moving-image stems from a need to document whilst witnessing the Egyptian upheaval in 2011. Now they are committed to their documentary practice by assembling hauntologies that summon beings, worlds, and times deemed immemorial by the current ruling discourse.
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