Most Popular Wael Shawky Trailers
Total trailers found: 9
Cabaret Crusades: The Secrets of Karbala Trailer (2015)
22 February 2015
The crusades come to life in Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s beautiful Cabaret Crusades. Inspired by the writings of Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, Shawky’s film trilogy explores the horrors of the medieval holy wars in the Middle-East – from an Arab perspective.
Telematch Sadat Trailer (2007)
17 July 2007
Telematch Sadat re-stages the 1981 military parade, assassination, and funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat—the event which ushered in the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak—with a cast of Bedouin children.
Drama 1882 Trailer (2024)
06 September 2024
Wael Shawky’s Drama 1882 (re)stages a colonial conflict laden with treason and exploitation as a libretto across eight chapters and 44 hypnotic minutes, invoking questions of colonialism, collaboration, resistance, narrative, history, and, of course, drama.
Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo Trailer (2011)
05 May 2011
In this installment of Cabaret Crusades, which covers the 46 years from the end of the First Crusade, in 1099, to the beginning of the Second Crusade, in 1147, a cast of more than a hundred 200-year-old string marionettes from the Lupi collection in Turin enact Shawky’s highly original approach to staging and filming history; the puppets represent actual historical figures, and the project was filmed entirely in a church in Aubagne according to a cinematic shot breakdown.
Al Araba Al Madfuna III Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
This is the final film in Shawky’s Al Araba Al Madfuna trilogy (meaning ‘buried cart’), titled after a village in Egypt where shamans urged inhabitants to dig underground tunnels, revealing a network of ancient temples and Pharaonic treasures.
I Am Hymns of the New Temples Trailer (2024)
25 January 2024
In his newest cinematic opus, artist Wael Shawky once again entrusts masks and marionettes to rethink and challenge the narratives around the birth of Mediterranean culture.
Cabaret Crusades Trilogy Trailer (2013)
01 December 2013
Wael Shawky in his Cabaret Crusades skillfully juxtaposes historical narrative with the childish world of puppetry—seriousness with naivety, fear with humor, horror with entertainment—to focus on events crucial to the development of an Arab identity.
Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show Files Trailer (2015)
01 December 2015
Wael Shawky’s epic marionette animation film offers a view on the history of the Crusades, retracing events that unfolded over a period of four years (1096-1099) and played a key role in subsequent historical developments, shaking to the core the Arab world and its relations with the West.
Dodge Ram Trailer (2004)
22 April 2004
A double-screen video of a Dodge Ram four-wheeler; and a man in a strange mask, who tries to build a wall from liquid tar.
