Interactive Installation made with stone, river sand, glass, light and the recordings of Përmeti's river. This was made in collaboration with Shpend Havolli during an art residency in Përmet, Albania this August 2012 with the invitation of Art-Ist International organisation.

                               

A video of the people of Përmet interacting with the installation " River and my Thoughts". I added a chant I improvised with the broken piano of the art center of Përmet 2 days before opening. I thought the two went well together.

                            

Working for Sirius Production doing interactive filmmaking with youths and artists of Paris. Here is an example of using 'interactive film' with young people in Paris. Performed at espace "CENT QUATRE"using the meta mallette with max msp software.  

Interactive "Weaving a North African Rug with the Human Voice"

                

 Interactive Installation inviting the public to sing into the microphone using Max Msp with Jitter.

Virtual Berber motif rug animated by the interactive voice of the public. Navigating a 3d animation with the voice gives more active participatory presence for the public. Navigating what one watches is a more empowering and active experience with the projected film. Archetype images inspired by Berber motifs, come forth and transform themselves while the guest continues to 'sound out' into the microphone.  A relationship is established between the person and the new media object.  (Presented in the USA, Turkey and France.) 

Interactive "I May not Know your Language but I Know your Heart"

                 

Interactive 3d animation projected onto a hanging canvas behind which I move to animate it with my body and voice. Maya software, and Max Msp were used to create this piece.

Inspired by Berber rug weavings, this project represents a woman weaving her own life into the universe. 
(Performed in New York, Boston, Tulsa, and Ankara.)

Moving Painting "L'Interdite, Composition #1"

This animation began with a story board of 15 sketches, which I painted, representing light frequencies of an imagined body of emotion. These water color sketches were recreated in Photoshop and animated into 3d forms using Maya software.  I then watched it and found sounds and vocal frequencies to go with it. This 3d animation was inspired by the emotion of love described in Malika Mokedems's novel: "L'Interdite" where a woman expresses her loss for her loved one.
This project translated the light and sound frequency I imagined to portray the moving body of the emotion she felt at her loss. 
(Exhibited as a moving painting in Mobius Boston, New York, at Dulcinea Istanbul, Bilkent Ankara, Etna Paris, "Neme festival" Russia, Beaux Arts Algiers.)

Coffee grind animation with song

                           

Much of Turkish oral culture has developed itself through story telling by 'reading' the fortune of a friend in the residues of coffee grind left on the inside of the cup. This animation was inspired by a true coffee cup reading from my friend Nimet in Ankara, Turkey. 

'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.)