A Guest Without A Host Is A Ghost, a visual arts project that takes the absence of public or private contemporary artwork collections in Egypt as its starting point, kicks off its dynamic public programme A Guest Without a Host Is a Ghost is a visual arts project that takes the absence of public or private contemporary artwork collections in Egypt as its starting point. Spread out across three venues -- the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), Townhouse and Beirut -- the exhibition opened during the first week of May. As part of the project's dynamic public programme, film works by Eric Baudelaire, Julien Crépieux, John Menick and Melvin Moti will be presented to audiences from 2 to 18 June at Townhouse, Beirut, the CIC and the Institut Français in Mounira. A series of talks will also be ongoing throughout June. Beirut, an art space co-founded by Sarah Rifky and Jens Maier-Rothe in May 2012, imagines the fictional presence of such contemporary art collections with this year-long project. Thirty artworks borrowed from the Kadist Art Foundation (Paris, San Francisco), an interdisciplinary institution with a growing contemporary art collection, have taken up residence in Cairo from May 2014 to April 2015. Described by Beirut as a "temporary guest to the city," this miniature collection will appear in various shows and events across Cairo, realised in collaboration with the CIC, Townhouse, Institut Français d'Egypte au Caire, Gypsum Gallery, ArtTalks, Goethe Institut, Cimatheque, and the public. Programme: Townhouse Library 10 Al-Nabarawy St, off Champollion St, Downtown, Cairo 11 June, 8pm Starring Sigmund Freud (2012) Director: John Mennick Running time: 28 minutes Screening will be preceded by a conversation between Ania Szremski and a surprise guest. 14 June, 8pm Collectors' Favourites (1994) Director: Jennifer Bornstein Running time: 21 minutes A conversation between Amgad Naguib and Ania Szremski about the notion of collecting will precede the screening. Beirut 11 Road 12, Mahmoud Sedky St, off Shaheen St, Agouza, Cairo 8 June, 8pm Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rifky and invited guests share their notes on works in the exhibition at Beirut. 9 June, 8pm The Ugly One (2013) Director: Eric Baudelaire Running time: 101 minutes Introduction by Lotta Schäfer. Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) 22 Abdel-Khaleq Tharwat St, 4th Floor, Downtown, Cairo 10 June, 8pm The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images (2011) Director: Eric Baudelaire Running time: 66 minutes Introduction by Lotta Schäfer. 17 June, 8pm The Ugly One (2013) Director: Eric Baudelaire Running time: 101 minutes Introduction by Lotta Schäfer. Institut Français, Mounira 1 Madraset Al-Hoqouq Al-Ferensiya St, off Qasr Al-Eini St, Mounira, Cairo 12 June, 8pm France, Détours, Episode 2: This line is your path (2011) Director: Frédéric Moser and Philippe Schwinger Running time: 53 minutes Introduction by Beirut. 16 June, 8pm The Prisoner's Cinema (2008) Director: Melvin Moti Running time: 22 minutes
Julien Crépieux (2012) Director: Microfilm Running time: 77 minutes There will be a closing ceremony at Beirut on 18 June, 8pm. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/102944.aspx
