In The Room, Franco-Egyptian visual artist Youssef Nabil delivers a poetic, meditative short film that plays like a vintage piece of Golden Age Egyptian celluloid. Melding moving image with his signature hand-colored, highly theatrical aesthetic, Nabil crafts a comforting fable about mortality and transition. The film follows Nabil as a soul contemplating the end of his earthly existence. He is met at the threshold by performance art icon Marina Abramović,... see more