Dreams of Films – Films of Dreams
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Dreams of Films – Films of Dreams
99 years ago, Layla was filmed; the first Egyptian feature film. This marked the beginning of a film culture that became one of the shared languages of the Arab world for decades.
This exhibition, Dreams of Films – Films of Dreams, by Van Eesteren Museum and Moataz Rageb, brings back the visual world of cinema from that era. Here, you will discover original cinema posters, hand-painted billboards, and illustrated posters created by illustrators, calligraphers, and printers who are rarely known by name.
In addition to images, sound and music also take center stage. Film music has always been inextricably linked to Egyptian cinema, and famous compositions were revived through another medium: on cassette tapes. Here, you will discover rare cassette tapes, film posters, and other material from the collection of Moataz Rageb, better known as Disco Arabesquo. He is an Amsterdam-based DJ, sociologist, and collector of Arabic vinyl, cassettes, and memorabilia.
In this exhibition, you will experience how film music—after being shown on the silver screen—took on a life of its own, on the streets and in living rooms. Rageb, who put the Egyptian disco and cassette culture of the 70s and 80s on the international map, offers a perspective on sound that belongs to the visual language of the posters just as much as it does to the films themselves.
From cinema facade to cassette deck: this exhibition at ADE shows that a dream is never carried alone. Image and sound have always traveled together and—thanks to collectors like Rageb—still do.
Open Thursday to Sunday, 12.00-17.00
Entrance €5-, free with Museumkaart
Museum about architecture, design, urban planning and art.
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