Blind Ambition, 2012, 45’ 

b/n, doppiaggio e sincronizzazione delle voci 

video HD filmato con un telefono Samsung Galaxy SII 

with: Ahmed Mowafy, Amr Mido, Dalia Kholeif, Saed El Shafei, Gamal Ibrahim, Tarek Hussein, 

Ahmed Khidr, Hassan Mohamed Hassan, Mohamed Hedayet, Omnia Mohamed, Sarah Naguib, 

Hossam Aymen, Ibrahim Fathy, Ibrahim Hamed, Mohamed Gamal, Omar Gamal, Shady Ahmed, 

Ahmed Fathy, Ahmed Saed, Khaled Nabil, Magdy Fady, Mohamed Rageh, Mahmoud Hussein, 

Danny, Mohamed Abo Taleb, Mohamed Aly, Khaled Khalil 

riprese e montaggio Hassan Khan assistente alla regia Aida El Kashef 

produttore esecutivo Yahia Zakaria intervalli Ayman El Nokaly 

manager di produzione Ahmed Abdallah doppiaggio Neo Sound 

commissionato da dOCUMENTA(13) 

prodotto da Galerie Chantal Crousel con la partecipazione di YATF (Young Arab Theater Fund) 

Film presented at Lo schermo dell'arte Film Festival 2017

Shot in Cairo with a cell phone, Blind Ambition is made up of nine different moments: conversations of men and women, played by actors, in a frantic urban context. These episodes were developed with the actors and then ‘inserted’ into real life situations where they were then shot. Traffic jams intersect the episodes: rush hour at Ramses Square, a busy shopping mall, the interior of a public transport facility, and so on. Though at first the video seems to give a real picture of the city and its inhabitants, the viewer soon understands that Khan’s work is much more complex. In the banality and diversity of their themes, the dialogues are a non-stop chorus that show seeds of conflict. The characters communicate with each other in loops, searching for resolution and maybe small triumphs but never really reaching a resolution. The cellphone allows for rapid movement, and guides the spectator through the narratives, approaching the subjects and then leaving them, losing interest in the dialogue, which disappears. The dialogues were recorded and dubbed during editing, eliminating background 

noise. The film runs through the veins of a congested city with alienating effect. 

Hassan Khan is an artist, musician and writer. He lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. Khan performs his music regularly in major museums, music festivals and venues such as the Louvre in Paris, Guggenheim NY , IN TON AL Music Festival in Malmo, Whitechapel in London, and MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin. He has published texts in Arabic and English, including: Nine Lessons Learned from Sherif El-Azma (Cairo 2009) and Twelve Clues (Mousse Publishing 2016), his first sci-fi novella. He won the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist of the 57th Venice Bienniale 2017, where at the Giardino delle Vergini he presented the sound installation Composition for a Public Park 2013/2017. Among his recent solo shows: the Beirut Art Center (2016), the Museum of Modern Art MMK (Frankfurt 2015), Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (Cairo 2015), SALT (Istanbul 2012). He has participated in numerous Biennials and international exhibitions including recently the Biennial of Montreal (2016), the Sharjah Biennial (2015), the Liverpool Biennial (2014), the New Museum Triennial, New York (2012) and dOCUMEN TA 13 (2012).