Gazing…Unseeing speculatively envisions a dystopian future scenario of an Egyptian city post-disaster. Floods have taken over the West Sahara, setting off a string of corporate and governmental measures to control the rioting population. The film is based on an interview with an imagined fugitive. Through different positions, ideological turns, and questions on economic sovereignty, the interview imagines the future of the greens’, governments’, and private sectors’ relations to infrastructure, privatization, ecology, surveillance, and migration.
Director
Mohamed Abdelkarim is a performer, filmmaker, and researcher. His practice is performance-oriented. He considers performance as a research method and a practice through which he produces texts and images that embody multiforms.