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EXBlicks: Art after Arab Spring

At this special screening, learn about the young Egyptians who risked their lives in the pursuit of street art during the Arab Spring.

Photo: IMAGO/Cavan Images

Berlin filmmaker Marco Wilms’ documentary Art War follows the lives of Egyptian artists in the wake of Arab Spring. In a society whose collective needs include paying honour to fallen martyrs and fellow activists, an explosion of creativity emerged; for instance, the radical anti-Islamic feminist blogger Aalia, whose naked self-portraits, posted online, became a motif of the cultural dissent boiling over Egypt’s emerging and radicalised youth culture.

Wilms shows how the artists not only utilised but instrumentalised art as a transcendental and effective weapon in the fight for their unfinished revolution. We will be providing customary refreshments and welcoming Wilms for a post-screening Q&A, as well as other special guests for a discussion on Egypt since the revolution.

  • EXBlicks Art War, Lichtblick Kino, Kastanienallee 77, May 20, starts 20:00