Tangier - Morocco | March 2009
@ Cinematheque de Tanger
with James Sweetbaum | produced by Surrogate Productions LLC

Gallery

Screening Programme | _download pamphlet

Atlantropa | Sam Stevens
Samuel Stevens (b. 1978) is a London-based English artist. The visual language established in the work of Samuel Stevens presents the audience with critical yet often poetic forms in film, video and still imagery. His work focuses on recurrent themes such as the politics and visual codes of landscape, borders, migration, and public space. ‘Atlantropa’ has been funded by the London Artists Film and Video Award and is structured around the concept of a fictional bridge spanning the Straits of Gibraltar.

Mimmo and his last wish | Giacomo Mondadori
75 year old Mimmo Domondi’s son, Marco (30), returns from Ethiopia with an Ethiopian fiancé Sara (30) and soon learns that she is expecting a baby. The situation re-ignites tensions between father and son, especially when Marco abandons Sara to an uncertain future.

Europlex | Ursula Biemann and Angela Sanders
Europlex tracks distinct cross-border activities through the Spanish Moroccan borderlands and seeks to make these obscure paths visible. On their repetitive circuits around the check-point to the Spanish enclave, the video follows in three borderlogs the smuggling women who strap multiple layers of clothes to their bodies, the daily commute of domesticas who turn into time travellers as they move back and forth between the Moroccan and European time zones and the Moroccan women working in the transnational zones in North Africa for the European market.

Cemeteries | Kaya Behkalam
Spaces and images of death: a video sketch, that juxtaposes the two places where most of his family members rest, the central cemetery of Tabriz, North-Eastern Iran and the Riensberg cemetery in the German city of Bremen.

Sur un air andalou | Sarah Benillouche
An erratic journey through time and space, ‘Sur un air Andalou’ remembers a childhood that is now but an echo of history. Charted through the gaze of a solitary being this journey spans borders, transitory encounters, hummed melodies, hotel rooms, profane trances, and sacred music.

Travelogue | Mahnaz Mohammadi
Travalogue documents interviews with passengers on the train from Teheran to Istanbul about their reasons for making the journey. The majority of these passengers are making a one-way journey out of Iran, attempting to emigrate to make a better life for themselves and their families. While some passengers shy away from the camera others use it as a witness to their hopes, dreams and sadness at leaving their homeland.

Todos Ciamos Mohammed | Max Lemcke