'Film Sauvage'

"Intimate Letters to Algeria" 62 minutes film

         I practice 'film sauvage' filmmaking by gathering pieces of film from my life to make it into an audio visual composition. I combined 16 mm film with ntsc and pal video footage which I shot and gathered between 1997 to 2010.

This is the story of an identity search through others, a voyage in the timescape of my personal film footage and voyage across other continents to better understand what it means to be algerian, or not. To understand the fear of being, the fear of being rejected, the fear of rejecting, and finally the love and attachement to this request. Across France, USA, Turkey, Laos and back again to France to finally find oneself in the ancestral land, Algeria. This film speaks of the modern human who loses herself/himself and then finds herself/himself in a new economically and culturally globalized world. 


(Shown at the festival du film amazigh in Algeria, Coup de Soleil Salon du livre maghrebin in Paris, Etna experimental film lab, Bulgarian film festival, Femme Film de Creteil festival in Paris.)