Tripoli Cancelled

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Naeem Mohaiemen, Tripoli Canceled, 2017, Photo:Dimitris Parthimos
Naeem Mohaiemen, Tripoli Canceled, 2017, Photo:Dimitris Parthimos
Naeem Mohaiemen, Tripoli Canceled, 2017, Photo:Dimitris Parthimos
Naeem Mohaiemen, Tripoli Canceled, 2017, Photo:Dimitris Parthimos
Naeem Mohaiemen, Tripoli Canceled, 2017, Photo:Dimitris Parthimos
Naeem Mohaiemen, Tripoli Canceled, 2017, Photo:Dimitris Parthimos

Contributors

Director/screenplay/editor: Naeem Mohaiemen Starring: Vassilis Koukalani Cinematographer: Petros Nousias Commissioned by: Documenta 14 Co-comissioned by: Sharjah Art Foundation Co-comissioned by: Art Jameel Additional support: locus athens | Hellinikon AE | Experimenter Producer: Naeem Mohaiemen | Maria-Thalia Carras Line producer: Daniella Rose King Assistant Camera: Alexis Iosefidis 2nd Assistant Camera / DIT: Sotiris Konstas  Still photography & props: Dimitris Parthimos Sound: Theophilos Botonakis Makeup: Katerina Michaloutsou Assistant editor: Caitlin Carr Sound Design: Kostas Fylaktides / Marcelo Anez Colour: Aggelos Mantzios Original: Music Qasim Navqi

Tripoli Canceled

Tripoli Cancelled (2017), a fiction film loosely inspired by the artist’s father, follows the daily rituals of a man stranded in an abandoned airport. The film follows him through his daily routine of walking, smoking, writing letters to his wife, staging scenes with mannequins in flight attendant uniforms, and reading from the dark British children’s book Watership Down (1972). Mohaiemen shot the film in Ellinikon Airport in Athens, Greece, loosely inspired by his father’s experience of being stuck in this same airport for nine days in 1977 after losing his passport. Designed by architect Eero Saarinen in the 1960s, Ellinikon was abandoned in 2001 and was recently used to house refugees entering Greece, and then proposed as a site for luxury real estate development during European Union negotiations over Greek debt.