Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Siwelile Mathenjwa
The Many Sides of the Square
Fathima Mula
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A public square in the heart of Cairo, Midan Al-Tahrir (Liberation Square) has been made and unmade in different ways since its inception, most notably as the main site of protest for the Arab Spring beginning in 2011. To dissuade any inclination towards a new revolution, the last few years have seen the systematic erasure of the traces of protest under military rule.
The Many Sides of the Square looks at fiction and filmmaking as a tool to explore this erased multiplicity of Tahrir using only the information and research that can be accessed from afar. This body of work forms a series of fictional animated acts, using cinematic and spatial tools to question the power dynamics prevalent within the making and unmaking of the space.
In this fictional narrative of the Square and its surroundings, focus is placed on the use of screens at multiple scales – from the cell phone to the billboard – to highlight the importance of social media as an archive of current events, and the detrimental effect censorship and propaganda have on the depiction of events, and ultimately the identity of a space.
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Tahrir Square, Cairo
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Screens, Fiction, Film, Politics, Power, Multiplicity