A director, writer, and consultant. She is a local Cairo author, activist, and artist who facilitates empowerment and growth throughout Cairo through her civic and artistic engagement. On The Battlefield is her first film.
On the Battlefield
On the Battlefield
On the Battlefield
Synopsis
In Little Egypt, Southern Illinois, Ray Whitaker explores former housing projects of Cairo's Black community of his hometown. His mic captures sounds of nature and life. Guided by a 1970 LP featuring Reverend Dr. Charles Koen, Whitaker seeks audible connections between past, present, and future.
Little Egypt Collective (LEC) is a multi-racial, multi-generational group of artists from 'Little Egypt' in Southern Illinois and Chicago. Their work is a mode of collective world-building and a means of investigating conditions of inequality in Southern Illinois, a region historically marked by economic and racial injustices. They utilise speculative fiction and conceptual playfulness to generate new expressions of community spirit and resistance, and participate in Cairo's resurgence. This is LEC's first work.
'As the first Little Egypt Collective release, this film is an overture celebrating the joy and power of Cairo, a town famous for confluences and collisions: between the North and South; the Mississippi and the Ohio rivers; and Black liberation and white supremacy. We offer an aperture of encounter, resistance, and inspiration, and invite audiences into these muddy histories and potent spaces'. - Little Egypt Collective
Festivals & Awards
2024 Berlinale
2024 Cinéma du Réel
Director's Profile
Theresa DELSOIN
Filmography
2024 On the Battlefield
Lisa Marie MALLOY
An artist committed to engaged modes of filmmaking. Her first feature film, A Shape Of Things To Come (2020), has shown at festivals around the world, including in the main competition of CPH:DOX, NYC Lincoln Center's Art of the Real, RIDM, Documenta Madrid, FICUNAM, and the Centre Pompidou. Her second film, The Raw and the Cooked (2022) is her first short film and premiered at Cinéma du Réel in Paris, France.
Filmography
2020 A Shape of Things to Come
2022 The Raw and the Cooked
2024 On the Battlefield
J.P. SNIADECKI
Born in 1979 in Marne, Michigan, USA. He studied Philosophy and Film and Chinese Language and Culture. He then attended Harvard University, where he earned an MA in East Asian Studies and a PhD in Social Anthropology with Media. J.P. Sniadecki is an artist, filmmaker, and anthropologist. He currently teaches filmmaking in the Documentary Media MFA programme at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Filmography
2007 Songhua
2008 Demolition
2010 The Yellow Bank
2010 Foreign Parts
2012 People's Park
2013 Yumen
2014 The Iron Ministry
2017 El Mar La Mar
2020 A Shape of Things to Come
2024 On the Battlefield
Ray WHITAKER
A local Cairo artist and filmmaker. He is a director, writer, sound recordist, editor, and cinematographer. Previously, he was trained as a concrete worker by his grandfather, worked at the John W Bell Monument Works, and is now a member of Little Egypt Collective. On The Battlefield is his first film.
Filmography
2024 On the Battlefield
Credit
Producer｜Rachel BURNS, Karin CHIEN, Judson CHILDS, Theresa DELSOIN, Clarence DOSSIE, Lisa MALLOY, J.P. SNIADECKI, Ray WHITAKER
Scriptwriter／Cinematographer／Editor／Sound｜Ray WHITAKER, Lisa MALLOY, J.P. SNIADECKI
Sound Design｜Homer MORA
Print Source
Little Egypt Collective｜littleegyptcollective@gmail.com