"TIRING" by Hermann P. Huber is a film piece between documentary and staging. It is embedded in the intricate web of history and stories surrounding one of the most spectacular buildings in Egypt's capital, at the interface of the old and the new city, wafted by the scent of Oriental perfumes. The Austrian photographer and documentarian strips Cairo's four-story world trade flagship from the first era of globalization – which, above all, meant exploiting the colonies – of its symbolical and materialist qualities by dismantling it in a series of sequences shot from different angles. In a certain sense the spatial level transfers to a temporal one. Huber traces the building from top to bottom, from the basement to the glass globe, always choosing a camera perspective that does not change until the next cut or frame, all laced with popular Egyptian melodies. Glimpses of the monomaniacal daily routine of deprival and misery are caught that cling to the skeleton of a luxurious past. Neon, daylight or dim lights – different degrees of illumination and obscuration create different experiences of space and even stage interior views. Huber's subtle way of staging the light turns out to be the motor of the film's syntax, developing its own rhythm, furnishing the commercial flicker at the sidelines of global cash flows with a meta-poetry of gradual perception.