Private Project

Voiceless Witnesses

Embracing physical, emotional, and philosophical perspectives of cracks in a stream of thought about space; the body, the void, the architecture, and how much loss, grief, pain, abuse, life, mortality, and conflict they voicelessly seize in a sequence of poetic, metaphorical, experimental built up distorted visuals, along with a soundtrack that welds the tussle. It is a journey of zooming in and out on the point where all these elements meet; the fracture.

  • Manon ElGergawy
    Director
  • Andrew Mikhail
    Sound Designer and Music Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    شهود بلا صوت
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 41 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    Egypt
  • Country of Filming:
    Egypt, Germany
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Media Design Department in the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Arts at the German University in Cairo
Director Biography - Manon ElGergawy

Manon ElGergawy is a passionate fresh graduate from the faculty of Applied Sciences and Arts; majored in Media Design at the German University in Cairo; who is fervent for Filmmaking, Visual Anthropology, Music, Visual Art, and Psychology. Manon has been to St. Joseph’s Sisters of Sacred Heart School in Heliopolis since Kindergarten in September 2002 till the first year of Secondary School in 2014; where she found her passion for art, and precisely for Filmmaking and music. She commenced self-studying filmmaking in 2012 under the supervision of her Chemistry teacher, who was also an independent filmmaker; Mina Athanasious- currently known as Mina Soliman in Ontario, Canada.
In 2014, Manon switched to St. Fatima British School in Nasr City to pursue her high school studies; where she squeezed all her 9 IGCSE O-levels and 2 A-levels in only 3 semesters with high grades.
Manon took part in several workshops and diplomas in Filmmaking and photography along with her studies, such as Film Directing by Dr. Samir Seif, Scriptwriting by Ahmed Mourad, Cinematography by the D.O.P Ahmed Hussein, Directing Actors by Sameh Ezzat, as well as Editing by Iman Othman and by Emad Maher. In 2020, Manon concluded her bachelor project on Child Sexual Abuse, and worked on few independent projects, along with two pre-masters programs in parallel; one on Cinema and Architecture supervised by Rodrigo Brum, and another on Memories supervised by Sonja Antanasijevic.

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