2004 | Netherlands | Experimental

Marsa Abu Galawa (Careless Reef Part 4)

  • 13 mins
  • Director | Gerard Holthuis

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Impression of the underwater world in the red sea. The film is a bombardment of images and features the music of Abdel Basset Hamouda, an Egyptian musician. The structure of the film is based on the so called «flicker films», in which the unconscious experience of the images is more important than the actual images. MAG is part of the Careless Reef series, four short films who deal with the underwater world.

Music by Abdel Basset Hamouda.

A breathtaking mash up of shape and color, where the captivating underwater images collide with each other, etching a new, accidental ecosystem. Featuring the rapturous music of Abdel Basset Hamouda, Holthuis Careless Reef Part 4: Marsa Abu Galawa will mesmerize and amaze, while managing to evoke the type of primordial feelings of peace and distress only the ocean can produce. (Ivan Lozano, Viennale)

experimental underwater world red sea music Egyptian ecosystem ocean structure short film
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