A text for a video clip

Idlers’ Clip (long shot & nails on the wall)
Three idlers with Middle Eastern arabo-african features, jobless, bored and frustrated from a filthy rich milieu of video clip industry invading the televised satellite media of their third world, decide to un-frustrate themselves by creating their own video clip;
Nails are placed on the wall to support the arms of the singer of the three in a deja-vu position while chanting a song of the Egyptian sixties: each time I claim repentance, destiny drives me to my very same deeds.

Khaled hafez 2005
mini DV format on DVD
4 minutes 37 seconds
with actors Bassem Wadie (idlers’ logic, 2003) and Bassem Adly