THE INVISIBLE HANDS

By Marina GIOTI, Georges SALAMEH (CO-DIRECTOR)

GREEK FILM CENTRE - as PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2017

An American in Cairo, failed insurgencies and music. A psychedelic anatomy of post “Arab Spring” melancholy.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2018
Forum Expanded
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • GREECE, EGYPT
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, ARABIC-EGYPT
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Marina GIOTI, Georges SALAMEH (CO-DIRECTOR)
    • Writer(s)
    • Marina GIOTI
    • Producer(s)
    • Marina GIOTI (Vertiginous)
    • Synopsis
    • Maverick underground American/ Lebanese musician and ethnomusicologist Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, 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 his old songs into Arabic. Under Bishop’s mentorship, this unlikely collaboration transforms into a band, The Invisible Hands. 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.