The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys
Basim Magdy
Presented only in theatres.
This film is part of the program Carte Blanche au Centre Pompidou.
In The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys, the soundtrack and images, sometimes altered, intertwine with the narrative. Egyptian artist Basim Madgy draws inspiration from the strange news stories written by his father, Madgy El-Gohary, to weave the narrative thread of a story in which a lone man, fleeing his own death, desperately seeks answers to his existence. Madgy’s cinema is marked by a personal dimension, that of uprooting and entropy. Shot in Super 16mm across various cities thousands of kilometers apart, the film intentionally blurs the notions of place and time to better emphasize the fictional nature of the time that has passed and the time to come.
Cartel de l’oeuvre :
MAGDY Bassim
1977, Asslout (Egypte)
The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys, 2014
Installation avec film Super 16mm numérisé, couleur, sonore
Achat grâce au Cercle International des Amis du Centre Pompidou, 2018
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle
Informations complémentaires :
Cinéma
Oeuvre en 3 dimensions, Installation cinématographique
version anglaise et française
durée: 13 min 22s
Copyright de l’oeuvre: Basim Magdy
n. inventaire: AM 2019-F10
Valeur d’assurance: 0 EUR (19÷12÷2024)
This film is part of the program Carte Blanche au Centre Pompidou.
In The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys, the soundtrack and images, sometimes altered, intertwine with the narrative. Egyptian artist Basim Madgy draws inspiration from the strange news stories written by his father, Madgy El-Gohary, to weave the narrative thread of a story in which a lone man, fleeing his own death, desperately seeks answers to his existence. Madgy’s cinema is marked by a personal dimension, that of uprooting and entropy. Shot in Super 16mm across various cities thousands of kilometers apart, the film intentionally blurs the notions of place and time to better emphasize the fictional nature of the time that has passed and the time to come.
Cartel de l’oeuvre :
MAGDY Bassim
1977, Asslout (Egypte)
The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys, 2014
Installation avec film Super 16mm numérisé, couleur, sonore
Achat grâce au Cercle International des Amis du Centre Pompidou, 2018
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle
Informations complémentaires :
Cinéma
Oeuvre en 3 dimensions, Installation cinématographique
version anglaise et française
durée: 13 min 22s
Copyright de l’oeuvre: Basim Magdy
n. inventaire: AM 2019-F10
Valeur d’assurance: 0 EUR (19÷12÷2024)
| Director | Bassim Magdy |
| Script | Bassim Magdy |
| Production | Bassim Magdy |
| Editing | Bassim Magdy |
Session
• Université Concordia - J.A. de Sève, LB-125, Pavillon J. W. McConnell
Sunday, march 16, 2025, 03:00 p.m. — 04:13 p.m.
Production
Basim Magdy
Basim Magdy (1977), originally from Egypt, studied at Helwan University in Cairo, graduating in 2000. Based between Basel and Cairo, he developed a protean practice combining film, photography, installation and drawing. His works are visual essays imbued with surrealism, capturing space and time, and mingling desire and disillusion. Filled with humor and skepticism, Basim Magdy’s reflections question the function and future of narratives and utopias, while exploring how history is shared to shape collective identity.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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