BASIM MAGDY
b. 1977 works in Cairo Big Head, video stills
01.04.2003
2:00 pm Today the weather was okay! We haven’t had
any sandstorms for the past two days but Saudi Arabia still keeps
disappearing then appearing again on the horizon. My attempts to capture
the incident on video failed!
11:30 pm As I was walking down the beach towards
my studio, a small bamboo hut, I noticed the light was on inside.
Coming closer, I could see the silhouette of a seated man with a
noticeably large head. He was just sitting there silently moving
his arms in an almost rhythmic way as if eating spaghetti. I ran
back, got a video camera and shot a two-minute video of his silhouette
through the bamboo walls of the hut. That was the highlight of the
day. I think now I have a piece!
02.04.2003
10:00 pm Today I went back to my studio and there
was no sign of Big Head. The video I shot is all I have to prove
that what I saw last night was real. In the afternoon I edited the
video. Now it's much faster and that cut it down to less than 30
seconds that I looped for an hour. I will show it on a monitor in
black and white in my studio for the open day. I'm glad I brought
my devil's sticks with me. Having enough space, my juggling skills
are developing while I'm here.
Saudi Arabia was gone for the whole day but now the sky is clear….
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