A Palestinian filmmaker, video artist, film programmer and film editor from Jordan, currently based in Tio'tia:ke (Montréal). ElKhairy holds a MFA in Studio Arts: Film Production at Concordia University. He has won the Peter Lenkov Award for Script Writing, 2018. His work has been shown in several international film festivals and art galleries including Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Kaunas International Film Festival, Toronto Palestine Film Festival and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery.
In his work, El-Khairy is motivated by the understanding of moving images as complex living systems, whose political scope goes beyond their representative capacity and into their financing, production and distribution.
His experimental fiction and non-fiction, character-based, single and multiple channel video works are particularly concerned with the legacies of colonial, political and economic power; How these forces play out in the lives of individuals, and how the lives of individuals reflect larger social, cultural political dimensions.
Intrinsic to his work is the desire to highlight the screen not only as an ideological apparatus but also as a surface onto which the performed self exists between the interiority of the personal and the exteriority of the sociopolitical.
As a film editor, El-Khairy believes in a collaborative and open work process based on experimentation and analytical investigation. Utilising this process to harness the full potential of the relationship between form and content in support of the message.
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