Abidin Travels
Two channel video installation and computer facilities
www.abidintravels.com
A travel agency promotes exotic, adventure vacations to Baghdad. The agency presents two videos (animated and real), posters, light boxes, brochures (tourist guides) and a ticket-booking facility. Abidin Travels invites potential visitors to Baghdad by sarcastically exposing details of everyday life.
Monitor #1 plays a montage of real life in Baghdad narrated by a voice-over of an American woman welcoming visitors to Baghdad and set to a soundtrack instruments played by American soldiers. Monitor #2 plays an animated commercial that advertises a special offer to win a holiday in Baghdad. The website is an interactive feature that invites visitors to book their flights and emails them the e-tickets. The free brochures and tourist guides provide necessary information and vital instructions about Baghdad. The website is available in the following languages: Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. The posters are stills from the video on monitor #1, printed on B2-sized paper and left in a pile for the viewers to take with them.
Details:
Country of production: Finland
Video#1: Duration: 00’04’33 min. (Loop)
Video#2: Duration: 00’02’00 min. (Loop)
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Original format: Mini DV and animation
Screening format: DVD-all
