Third Vision: Around 01:00 pm

An experimental video project made to be projected either:

1. Four channel video projection with audio
2. Or single channel adaptation with audio

Third Vision: Around 01:00 pm is a video and audio collage split to project as a four-channel video projection; the work is a nostalgic narrative of visuals that I keep in my memory and shape my practice today.

In this work I use archival photographs from my own family album, photographs I collected along my itinerary as a developing artist as well as film footage, some extracted from VHS-recorded TV material and/or Internet, isolated from its original context, and assembled in a new way to create a personal narrative.
I used the modern changing social and military histories of Egypt to create the principal structure of the work; for the second video, I use historical footage of the assassination of Sadat, the incident I lived when I was 18.

The use of stock photographs, images and audio in this assemblage creates a hybrid story that actually took place in my personal life in the same timeline as seen onscreen.

Khaled Hafez
2008