Basim Magdy
Basim Magdy is an artist and filmmaker born in Assiut, Egypt.
His work appeared recently in solo and group exhibitions at museums such as Frac Bretagne, Rennes; KM21 Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague; M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux; MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MAXXI Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome; The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Centre Pompidou, Paris. His films are in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France FRAC Ile-de-France (le Plateau), Paris; MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; Arter, Istanbul and Mathaf: Museum of Modern Arab Art, Doha mong others.
His films were screened at Tate Modern, Locarno Film Festival, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival among others.
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Accompanying the Festival’s exhibitions programme, the Berwick New Cinema Competition features resolutely contemporary films that transgress restraints of genre, capital and expectation. Doubling in size since its first iteration in 2016, it is one of the Festival’s ambitions to develop dialogue around different presentation potentials for the moving image.
A drive towards liveness and agency provides a critical framework for selections.
This year’s jury are 2016 Berwick New Cinema Award winner Camilo Restrepo, artist and curator Amal Khalaf (Serpentine Gallery and GCC Collective) and film programmer Joanna Raczynska (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
