samedi 21 avril 2012

My Chants

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Chant que jai "trouvé" en filmant l'eau sulfurique des canions proche de Permet,Albanie. Chant trouvé avec mes amis de Timimoun à coté d'une source du Sahara.


Ancient Berber Chant of Exile performed at Cabaret Sauvage, Villette, Paris
for the remembrance of the great algerian journaliste Tahar Djaout who died for his beliefs
of saying the truth and was killed at the age of 35 years during the Printemps noir of 1993.



"Rusted Moon", written about the broken dreams of algerian people during the
printemps noir after Tahar Djaout was killed for his beliefs :
"If you say it you will die, If you keep quiet you will die, so Say it and die"
Tahar Djaout


"A Said Lamara", a traditional kabyle song which I interpreted and added my own
touch to...it is about a young woman in the forest who imagines her lover being transformed
as a little twig floating on the river...and she takes this twig with her back to her home so that
when the nite comes, the twig becomes her lover...
She fantasizes this and sings it to the river, as she knows that the villagers would never
accept nor allow her to bring her lover home.



"You can change Baby" - A song I wrote and sang for Ecological awareness. With Emmanuel Cornil
on tabla percussions.


My Modern vocal and piano interpretation of Semman chant which is an ancient kabyle chant.



"La danceuse Inconnue" , ancient Kabyle chant I have adapted with Emmanuel Cornil on perscussions.

improvised chant in Djanet, Sahara with Ahmed Shakali playing oud and vocal, and Levy Shikova
playing the Ney.

jeudi 19 avril 2012

illustrations of the "Last song of the Sea" with vocal performance


Story telling and chanting to illustrations of the pollution in the sea of Istanbul for children.
3 examples of 30 illustrations of the story "Last song of the mediteranean sea".
(Performed at Dulcinea art space in Istanbul and at the library of Toucy, France)

Video Poem- 'La Comédie des Beurs'




La Comédie des beurs is a video poem which describes the feeling a child of immigrants
might feel between two countries. The displacement becomes a poetic ground for exploring the
inbetween space of neither here nor there.
(Shown in New York, Boston, Ankara, Istanbul, Paris.)


mercredi 18 avril 2012

Teaching Film Workshops in Kabylie, Algeria



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'ENTRE L'AMOUR ET LE KIF'

38 minutes film written, produced, filmed and
edited in Algeria, Ath Lahcen within my film workshops "Ateliers Djurdjura cinéma"-
A fiction story about a young man who escapes boredom, depression and non employment in the soft illusionnary arms of drugs called 'Kif' in Kabylie. But this sweet illusion has a price to pay, and the young man must find the money by stealing and selling his mother's belongings. Our anti hero has made a bad reputation for himself in the village, and soon enough, his girlfriend finds out. She asks him to choose between life with her or life with drugs. Made with Final cut pro and Audacity.
(This film was selected for the Amazighen film festival in Tizi Ouzou and Berber television in Paris.)



mardi 17 avril 2012

Teaching Film Workshop in Tinjdad, Morocco

                    


                         
                    


"Hafida, the girl who dreamed of flying away" 12 minutes student
film written and directed by Hafida Youssif in my video art workshops 
in Tinjdad, Errachidia Morocco.

Video production workshop where technical storyboarding, lighting, filming, editing and sound editing 
were taught. Using Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and Pro tools. 12 youths made 5 films in one summer. Here is the exemple of one student's work; Hafida!





jeudi 5 avril 2012

Second Life Workshops between Tunisia/Algeria/USA





"Droit D'Asile"- Dolphin manifesto for the dying dolphins of the Mediterranean Sea

I initiated and taught a video art project in Algiers on 'second life', an internet platform for avatars, with  the students of l'Ecole des beaux Arts of Algiers in collaboration with Wafa Bourkhis who worked with us from Tunisia, and we invited the usa second life artists troupe called "second front" to dance inside of our  'underwater' artscape.


mercredi 4 avril 2012

Teaching Film Workshops in the Sahara



"POUR MON AMOUR" 22 minute digital film made by my students

Under my supervision during the 2012 Winter film workshops I gave at Djanet. I taught with Malik Hammani the filmmaking techniques of lighting, filmmaking, editing, story boarding, sound recording and visual composition with personal video equipement. We were invited and lodged by Mohammed Ghilali representing the association "League de la jeunesse de Djanet".