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Everything Under Heaven: Leviathan’s Revenge

Assem Hendawi

Everything Under Heaven is a theory-fiction set in the desert lands east of Cairo, where the New Capital, Egypt’s most ambitious project is under construction. The video explores Egypt’s infrastructural history post-1952 history and how in recent history these projects were deployed more for their imaginaries for ideology formation than economic aims and how Egypt’s New Capital embodies statecraft as infrastructure speculation. The narrative is woven through the desert as a backdrop - a space out of time - with its spatiotemporal contingencies that have materially haunted and conditioned Egypt's self-realization in the past and speculatively haunt a global future riddled with climate catastrophes.
Country: Egypt
Time: 17
Year: 2022