Movie Details
Original Language:Arabic
The AllHearing
DirectorLawrence Abu Hamdan
13 min
Plot
The AllHearing shows two local sheikhs delivering sermons on noise pollution in Cairo at the artists request This unorthodox intervention into the sonic landscape of the loudest city on Earth followed on from the military regimes attempts to restrict such sermons to governmentsanctioned topics that week the Prophets Ascension to Heaven Cutting between closeups of the sheikhs idiosyncratic addresses and wide shots of their congregations and the loudspeakers amplifying their voices in the streets outside Abu Hamdans images show how the sheikhs message is disseminated in a way that contradicts its content
