Borrowing a Family Album

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Borrowing a Family Album, is a 2023 Egyptian movie, directed by Tamer El Said. with a runtime of 25 minutes.

Overview

Borrowing a Family Album is a video installation by Egyptian filmmaker Tamer El Said in which he appropriates the amateur home footage of another family to reclaim a memory of his own lost sibling. By projecting these borrowed images into a gallery space, El Said invites visitors to search for their own personal recollections within someone else's archive, transforming private footage into a collective act of remembrance. The work meditates on loss, memory, and the porous boundary between personal history and shared experience, creating an unexpectedly intimate encounter between strangers and the past.

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