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The Invisible Hands (EG/US) - Filmvisning og koncert at Alice cph

Courtesy of JazzDanmark | Posted on March 9, 2019

Where

Alice cph
Nørre Allé 7
Copenhagen
Map
+45 50 58 08 41

When

Mon, March 25, 2019
23:00

About

After landing in Cairo as a stranger shortly after the 2011 uprisings, maverick underground American/Lebanese musician and ethnomusicologist Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies) teams up with three young Egyptian musicians to translate his old songs into Arabic. Under Bishop’s mentorship, this unlikely collaboration transforms into a band, The Invisible Hands. The film unfolds between the two crucial elections that marked the post “Arab Spring” period in Egypt. Structured around fly-on-the-wall scenes, archival ghost apparitions, absurd cameos, and poetic diary narrations by Bishop, the film juxtaposes the tragicomedy of politics and art-making in the so-called periphery. ...

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