RAW Material Company invites you to a screening of Naeem Mohaiemen's film Tripoli Cancelled on Wednesday December 11th at 8pm at the Cinéma Empire, Médina.

Tripoli Cancelled (2017)

A man follows a daily routine of walking, smoking, writing letters, staging scenes, and reading from a weathered copy of the British children’s classic Watership Down. Gradually, we learn that his home for the last decade is an abandoned airport, and witness his cycle of routine and realization. But is he a prisoner, or is it a voluntary home? There are no guards or fences, only a few mannequins in Olympic Airlines uniform, Melina Mercouri and Boney M songs, and letters to his wife that mix fantasy and despair. The film is shot in the Eero Saarinen designed International Terminal (built 1969, closed in 2001) of Ellinikon Airport in Greece. The script is loosely inspired by Mohaiemen’s father, who was stranded in this same Athens airport for nine days in 1977, after losing his passport on a Bangladesh-India flight. Tripoli Cancelled is also a requiem for an expansive post-war architecture, that in the future may not exist. Commissioned by documenta 14.