CAMARADERIE is a tapestry pulled together from YouTube footage featuring Egyptian bodybuilders.

CAMARADERIE is pulled together from YouTube footage showing Egyptian professional bodybuilders in different situations. By using techniques such as appropriation and cropping, the work attempts to understand the representative nature of the masculine body, in its many variations: from the official to the popular, ethical, personal and the erotic.

Dir. Mahmoud Khaled

2009, Egypt, DVD - 10.30 min - color, sound, loop. ‘found videos and texts on YouTube'.

Director: Mahmoud Khaled
Producer: Mahmoud Khaled, Mashrabia Gallery
Sales : Mahmoud Khaled
Print source: Mahmoud Khaled
Scenario: Mahmoud Khaled
Cast voice of Bassam El Baroni
Editor: Perry Moataz
Production design: Mahmoud Khaled
Sound design: Mahmoud Khaled
Length: 11'
Film format: DCP

Commissioned by Mashrabia Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cairo.


2013 | 42nd IFFR - Festival International du Fllm de Rotterdam
* Selection - Spectrum Shorts
* Screening - Close Encounters: Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 1 / LantarenVenster 6 / Sat 26 Jan / 14:15
* Screening - Close Encounters: Peripheral Images and Histories of the Present 1 / LantarenVenster 6 / Sun 27 Jan / 19:30