Film director Adelita Husni-Bey: biography, career, and

After the Finish Line

Adelita Husni-Bey

Produced during a year-long residency in San Fransisco, After the Finish Line explores the psychological and physical aspects of competitive culture.

After the Finish Line

2015

Agency—Giochi di Potere

Adelita Husni-Bey

Inspired by a citizenship class exercise originally developed in the United Kingdom, 35 volunteer students from Rome’s Manara High School were asked to think through relationships of dominance in contemporary Italy. The students were divided into five categories: journalists, politicians, workers, activists and bankers. The journalists were responsible for an hourly report on the advancement of the “society,” while the different categories responded to the scenarios by assigning each other “power-points.” The simulation was interrupted by planned moments of abstraction from the game, debates about the social conditions being created through the choices the different categories were making and the meaning and workings of power. Agency—Giochi di Potere was conducted in April 2014 at MAXXI Museum in Rome.

Agency—Giochi di Potere

2014

The Reading

Adelita Husni-Bey

Presented at the Italian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale.

The Reading

2017

Ard

Adelita Husni-Bey

Ard looks at the often tense and uneven encounter between redevelopment plans and local residents, in this case in in the informal neighborhoods of Gezirat al-Qursaya and Ramlet Boulaq in Cairo.

Ard

2014