Country: France, Qatar, Greece, Germany
Year: 2017
Duration: 140'
Starting with evidence of the first scientific and military campaigns conducted by the French colonizers in Northern Africa, a gallery of improvisations, reenactments, performances and interviews unspool onscreen, showing the birth of a new society created by a group of nomads and vagabonds who have chosen to fight the constrictions of society.
Biography
film director
Narimane Mari
Narimane Mari (Algiers, Algeria, 1969) began her filmcareer in 2001 by producing films. In 2006 she founded the company Centrale Électrique, aiming to help directors and artists engaged with their contemporary history. In 2007 she made her first short film Prologue, about the artist Michel Haas. She then directed Scholars in the Land of Islam (2011), ninety episodes of animation for the Algerian national television. Bloody Beans (2013), her first fiction film, was selected at more than fifty film festivals and received the Grand Prix at FIDMarseille. Mari’s second feature, the documentary Les fort des fous (2017) had its world premiere in Locarno. In 2015 she produced Round About in My Head by Hassen Ferhani, Grand Prix FID, Grand Prix Torino Film Festival. Le fort des fous, her second feature film, which premiered at Locarno Film Festival, was presented at DOCUMENTA 14 as an installation. Today, she’s editing her next film We Had the Day, Bonsoir!
FILMOGRAFIA
Prologue (cm, doc., 2007), Loubia Hamra (doc., 2013), Le fort des fous (doc., 2017), Holy Days (mm, doc., 2019).
Declaration
film director
“At first, I had imagined the second part of the film to take place in the Algerian desert where a utopian society arises to oppose powers and states, and go so far as to build a fort around themselves. The idea of the fort presupposes madness and creates insanity both within and outside the fort, madness for those who take refuge in it or are excluded from it. But also the madness of hoping for a different society that will never change if one does not accept to be both inside and, at the same time, deprived of the illusory protection of the walls whatever these walls may be.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Narimane Mari
fotografia/cinematography
Narimane Mari, Antonin Boischot
montaggio/ film editing
Narimane Mari, Corentin Doucet
musica/music
Los Cousinos
suono/sound
Antoine Morin
produzione/production
Centrale Électrique
coproduttori/coproducers
Fenia Cossovitsa, Ann Carolin Renninger, Mina Droucher
coproduzione/coproduction
Blonde, Joon Film, Xenia Film, Allers Retours Films
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contatti/contacts
Pascale Ramonda
pascale@pascaleramonda.com
www.pascaleramonda.com
Narimane Mari
fotografia/cinematography
Narimane Mari, Antonin Boischot
montaggio/ film editing
Narimane Mari, Corentin Doucet
musica/music
Los Cousinos
suono/sound
Antoine Morin
produzione/production
Centrale Électrique
coproduttori/coproducers
Fenia Cossovitsa, Ann Carolin Renninger, Mina Droucher
coproduzione/coproduction
Blonde, Joon Film, Xenia Film, Allers Retours Films
**
contatti/contacts
Pascale Ramonda
pascale@pascaleramonda.com
www.pascaleramonda.com
