Pilot for a Soap Opera about an Egyptian Air Hostess

Sherif elAzmas 52minute video consists of improvised scenarios involving a cadre of stewardesses for a thirdworld airline The first part of the video follows them through their training the young women interrogate one another in varying tempo learning how to be friendly yet reveal nothing about themselves In the second part two of the stewardesses work the firstclass cabin of a turbulent flight As the flight wears on the refreshments run out the real lapses into the fantastic and the stewardesses drift into strange and terrifying new spaces The videos evocative imageryan older stewardess and her protégé walking in high heels through a desertis at once comic and tragic and just slick enough to be uncanny The simple sets are a deadpan foil for the absurd events that unfold within them Samuel Becketts dramatic work comes immediately to mind