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Cairo Video Festival in Cairo
Cairo Video Festival began in 2005 as the founding project of Medrar for Contemporary Art, which grew directly out of organizing it. The roughly ten-day program screens low-budget, experimental video art and film selected for authenticity over polish, pairing screenings with artist talks that position it as a conversation platform for video artists rather than a standard film festival.
Cairo Video Festival began in 2005 as the founding project of what would become Medrar for Contemporary Art, an initiative that started life as a loose collective of visual artists experimenting with video as a medium still treated as peripheral within Egypt's contemporary art scene at the time.