The Invisible Hands • Documentary Teaser

THE INVISIBLE HANDS
Documentary, Greece/ Egypt, 2017, 97 min
A film By Marina Gioti, co-directed by Georges Salameh
with: Alan Bishop, Aya Hemeda, Cherif El Masri, Adham Zidan

Maverick underground American/Lebanese musician and ethnomusicologist Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls and 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 old songs of his 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.

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[bernhardsart]

I can't wait to meet the genius!!!!

[vasilikos]

φαινεται πολυ ενδιαφερον!Καλη επιτυχια!