My love for you, Egypt, increases by the day
<p>On January 27th, 2011 Egyptian authorities succeeded in shutting down the country’s international Internet access points in response to growing protests. Over one weekend, a group of programmers developed a platform called Speak2Tweet that would allow Egyptians to post their breaking news on Twitter via voicemail despite Internet cuts. The result was thousands of heartfelt messages from Egyptians recording their emotions by phone.</p> <p><i>My love for you, Egypt, increases by the day</i> is one short from an experimental film that presents selected Speak2Tweet messages prior to the fall of the Mubarak regime on February 11, 2011 and juxtaposes them with the abandoned structures that represent the long-lasting effects of a corrupt dictatorship.</p>
Artists: Heba Amin
Editors: Zoë Salditch
Part of: The Download