Documentary |  Greece/ Egypt | 97’

Private Screening: Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Maverick underground American/ Lebanese musician and ethnomusicologist Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies), lands as a stranger in Cairo, soon after the 2011 uprisings and teams up with three young Egyptian musicians for the translation of his old songs into Arabic. Under Bishop’s mentorship, this unlikely collaboration transforms into a band, The Invisible Hands. Structured around fly-on-the-wall scenes, archival ghost apparitions, absurd cameos and poetic diary narrations by Bishop, and unfolding between the two critical elections, that marked the post ‘Arab Spring’ period in Egypt, the film juxtaposes the tragicomedy of politics and art-making in the so-called periphery.

With: Alan Bishop, Aya Hemeda, Cherif El Masri, and Adham Zidan

Supported by: documenta 14, Greek Film Centre

The artists will be present for a Q&A session after the screening.