Leap into Colour
Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, 2012-2015.
HD 30 min
you can access the full video here https://vimeo.com/131082332
Password: armand
Credits
Cast: Philippe Arzrouni, Mustafa, Rania Rafei, Hisham Jaber, Am Abdo, Malak Helmy, Vartan Avakian, Armand Arzrouni (jr.), Fatiha Bouzidi m.fl.
Camera: Nadim Saoma, Islam Kamal & Talib Rasmussen
Soundtrack: Maurice Louca & Khaled Yassine
Sound design: Khaled Yassine & Ziad Fayed
Postproduktion: Ali Kays, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld & The Council
Arkiv Materiale: Arab Image Foundation, Beirut
Leap into Colour explores the photographic collection of Armand (Armenak) Arzrouni (1901, Erzurum – 1963, Cairo), who photographed artists and politicians frequenting his studio in downtown Cairo in the 1920s–1940s. In 2012, I invited Philippe Arzrouni, Armand’s son, who has worked as an architect in Denmark since the 1960s, back to Cairo to find out what had happened to his father’s photographs. Memories from the past interfere with the present and become inextricable. The project was developed through the Arab Image Foundation’s archives in Beirut and a residency at Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. The project also consisted of a series of reenactment photographs with contemporary artists in Beirut and Cairo. Leap into Colour was exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 2015.
