Hassan Khan

Blind Ambition

Images Festival, Innis Town Hall, Toronto, Canada
July 21st, 2022 — 7 p.m.
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Hassan Khan, Blind Ambition (still), 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.

Hassan Khan's film Blind Ambition (2012) will be presented as part of the Images Festival 2022.

Blind Ambition is shot with a cellphone featuring 27 actors in nine different episodes that take place at different times of the day in public places across the city of Cairo. Shot in stark black and white and completely silent except for the voices of the actors, it is an attempt to crystallize and suspend an emotional condition that seethes under the surface of a collective, to produce a portrait of selves held together by a fragile intent.

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