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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