Medrar to re-screen selections from Cairo Video festival

Medrar for Contemporary Art have announced they will re-screen films shown at the Cairo Video Art festival, starting on Saturday 29 March.The festival, hosted at Medrar in Garden City between 25 September and 7 October 2013, showcased almost 200 video art projects and experimental films from more than 30 countries.It also featured an exhibition, and a talk by prominent artist Hala El-Koussy. The festival was followed by a workshop for video art production.Since 2005, Medrar has hosted festivals and workshops, provided a collaborative space for a growing movement of media artists, and disseminated audio-visual material documenting the local contemporary art scene, through its three core projects: the Cairo Video Festival, Open Lab Egypt, and Medrar TV. Source: ahramonline