And on a Different Note is a deeply personal insight into human behaviour in crisis situations. The author, Mohammad Shawky Hassan, is an Egyptian expat living in New York, who experiences the ongoing political developments in his country by exposing himself to a ceaseless flux of political Egyptian talk-shows. Shots of silent empty rooms with windows overlooking a backstreet intermix with the noise of the angry and bigoted discourse in Arab, of which but a few keywords are translated, making it even more effective. As the audio stream becomes overwhelmingly intense, a growing sense of alienation carries the viewer into the director’s interior world. (Adina Marin, BIEFF)
