What's the Vision Behind D-CAF's 2015 Music Program?

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May 11, 2015
What's the Vision Behind D-CAF's 2015 Music Program?

What's the Vision Behind D-CAF's 2015 Music Program?

By : Medrar TV مدرار تي في

In this video, journalist and Dandin.me co-founder Abdel-Rahman Hussein interviews Mahmoud Refat about the vision for the music program in the 4th Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF). Refat, an acclaimed musician from Cairo and founder of 100Copies label and 100Copies Music Space has been curating the music component of D-CAF since its inception, bringing in a range of local, regional and international artists such as Emel Mathlouthi, Yasmine Hamdan, Ali Talibab, El Rass and of course the growing Mahraganat groups. This year, several of the international acts were DJs such as Boris Brejcha and DJ Why Be, while local and regional musicians included: Ismael, Boikutt, Abyusif and El Dakhlaweya.


Refat explains the consistent vision he developed for the program and has been using for the past four years. He discusses its relevance and the impact he hopes to achieve on the local music scene with it.

The interview is in Arabic and has English subtitles.

This video is produced by Medrar.TV in partnership with D-CAF 2015.



[This video was produced by Medrar TV and is featured in partnership with Jadaliyya Culture]
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May 8, 2015 Lebanon
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Studio Visit: Lebanese Artist and Musician Raed Yassin

In this video, we visit Lebanese artist and musician Raed Yassin in his studio in Beirut. He tells us about his ongoing interest in Egyptian cinema and how he uses it as a reference for many of his art projects be they video, photography, sound, installation or his well known neon signs. Yassin has been interested in Egyptian cinema because of its wide appeal in the Arab region. He borrowed a line from the famous Lembi film series to name the artist collective he formed with artists Vartan Avakian and Hatem Imam (Atfal Ahdath), and he has been mixing story lines and characters from various films with his own personal history, creating fictional memories, particularly related to his father`s death. Yassin`s work is often playful and humorous with darker undertones. 

Yassin (b.1979) graduated from the theater department at the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2003. He has exhibited and performed in numerous museums, festivals and venues across Europe, the Middle East, the United States and Japan. Yassin was awarded the Fidus Prize (2009), the Abraaj Capital Art Prize (2012), the AFAC grant for production (2010), the YATF grant for production (2008 & 2012) and the Cultural Resource grant for production (2008). He is one of the organizers of IRTIJAL Festival, and has released several music albums. He founded Annihaya production company in 2009.

This video was produced by Medrar.TV

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[This video was produced by Medrar TV and is featured in partnership with Jadaliyya Culture]