Cairo Compressed 2024

Cairo Compressed takes place from October 21–27, 2024, alongside the 11th Cairo Video Festival. Led by Mena El Shazly and organized by Medrar and the Small File Media Festival with support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the workshop explores small-file filmmaking as a way to push aesthetic limits and engage abstraction as a tool for critical expression. It concluded with a public screening and discussion on December 15, and resulted in the creation of nine new films.