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CHEBBA Chebba is a hybrid film on the ritual of purification from the evil eye, as performed by four generations of women in one same Moroccan family. In the midst of incense and protective psalms, each woman’s beliefs manifest, both in contradiction and harmony. Cinephilia Shorts Lab 2019 (JCC - Carthage Film Festival) Best Screenplay Award of Cinephilia Shorts Lab 2019 ($3,500 cash prize sponsored by Seat26 Productions) Aide à la création et production audiovisuelle de l’Institut Français Maroc https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/select-works daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1655476404678-TTBQ7FROFNM0JZGPA77V/ocean+2.png Select Works - THE ONE WITH THE MANES (ongoing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1691857245171-5HQAMNVQHNCEJUWB6O5E/image+%232.png Select Works - CHEBBA (ongoing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1698639081754-TWA6BHF9SJNMZ4X42540/Still.jpg Select Works - DESERT WASH (ongoing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603986862879-LO9FZ1AJ70SRPSS8EBP5/5.c%252BMoussem%252BTrans%252528e%252529.jpg Select Works - BODY HERE, MIND ELSEWHERE (ongoing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1641334064866-C6CVZSTPP38LT39P3ZAK/Visions+of+a+dreamt+sunset.png Select Works - VISIONS OF A DREAMT SUNSET https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1644707648539-Z9ENL1V2AVYZ0U60V90E/How+to+reverse+a+spell.png Select Works - HOW TO REVERSE A SPELL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1661085205206-Q0WCEFF3LBAW8BH19AHW/1_objets_relais.png Select Works - OBJETS-RELAIS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1655478343562-XDGA66U3CRDSA9UMRJH5/Screen+Shot+2022-06-17+at+4.04.59+PM.png Select Works - ڭمطتك MESSAGES SO FULL OF LOVE AND RAGE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1672488919790-2NS55L4NSSMQHG9BYC99/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-12-23%2Bat%2B7.49.50%2BPM.jpg Select Works - HOLD MY HAND AND KEEP ME AFLOAT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1688555140309-YMSN7027DUWBBAL8N0FR/20230702_154153.jpg Select Works - DECOLONIZING ARCHIVES MANIFESTO (ongoing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1641334063530-O8Q68OUDTQ2E33CB8FMC/Are+we+to+ever+be+material+again.png Select Works - ARE WE TO EVER BE MATERIAL AGAIN? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1624031182844-7DFMPUUT1917CP0Z2HH7/radio.jpeg Select Works - SUNDOWN CONVERSATIONS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1624033423652-Q40MX6ZCOO442TNGLAK2/Screen+Shot+2021-06-18+at+5.22.59+PM.png Select Works - OUR SUCCESS IS IN SHARING SPACE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1624030914641-HX2Y0GYIPDF12PCEGUEN/Screen+Shot+2021-06-18+at+4.37.35+PM.png Select Works - SAB‘AT ’AMWAJ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603986765482-7GRSDU51HTTP5WYEG279/image.jpg Select Works - OJALA: LA VUELTA AL ORIGEN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603987157975-E9SHQQF0ONS6QF6XOTKO/to%2Btrace%2Bthe%2Bsteps.jpg Select Works - SU GENTE, SU CIELO, SU AROMA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603987545158-6GVLO86L9H6V2UGI8FK0/3.a%2Bmyst.jpg Select Works - THE EMBODIED BORDER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603988628895-KV11Y1DB6Z00V3HCUHOZ/7.a%252BObservational.jpg Select Works - OBSERVATIONAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603989421300-RUQZFPSOS6KDP046WQEX/8.b%2BThe%2BTravel%2BCuriosity.jpg Select Works - THE TRAVEL CURIOSITY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1512406570803-2CKQKYZ63HGZ5R7EFC80/Screen+Shot+2017-12-04+at+17.48.49.png Select Works - THE REAL WORLD SYNDROME https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/body-here daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603985571940-O4A6BWFCM848GOUL6JRD/5.c%2BMoussem%2BTrans%2528e%2529.jpg Body Here, Mind Elsewhere - BODY HERE, MIND ELSEWHERE // previous title: Moussem Trans(e) (Copy) DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM Director Moussem Trans(e) is a feature documentary in immersion in an annual pilgrimage in Morocco. During a week, the small space gathers pious people visiting the mausoleum, people dancing to the music of afro-descending brotherhoods, and people asking a mythical creature now queer icon for fertility. FIDADOC Pan-African documentary film writing residency (Meknes, Morocco) DOX Garage by DOX BOX - consultancy program (consultant: Rasha Salti) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603985571940-O4A6BWFCM848GOUL6JRD/5.c%2BMoussem%2BTrans%2528e%2529.jpg Body Here, Mind Elsewhere - BODY HERE, MIND ELSEWHERE // previous title: Moussem Trans(e) multi-format documentary project (in development) Moussem Trans(e) is a feature documentary in immersion in an annual pilgrimage in Morocco. During a week, the small space gathers pious people visiting the mausoleum, people dancing to the music of afro-descending brotherhoods, and people asking a mythical creature now queer icon for fertility. FIDADOC Pan-African documentary film writing residency (Meknes, Morocco) DOX Garage by DOX BOX - consultancy program (consultant: Rasha Salti) https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/objets-relais daily 0.75 2020-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601415782677-PNIXL1FJ072YOZK285WZ/Objet+Relais+1.png Objets-Relais https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1661085205206-Q0WCEFF3LBAW8BH19AHW/1_objets_relais.png Objets-Relais - OBJETS-RELAIS film/video installation Year: 2022 Middle schoolers touch and take objects in their hands. The objects are their grandparents’, and in this act of touch, they take hold of their histories and heritage. Through 3D scanning and images that reflect, in their imperfections, the diluted memories that were passed on, the teenagers initiate the reappropriation of the objects and the stories they carry. Year-long artist residency “Résidence Croisée” with Maison des Métallos (Paris, France) in two middle schools in Paris and Noisy-le-Grand on rites of passage and transitions. Collective mixed media exhibition at Maison des Métallos (scheduled for October 2022), co-produced by narrative Installation co-funded by DICRéAM Film co-funded by Fonds Images de la diversité Artist residency at MA scène nationale (Objets-Relais) Part of Irvin Anneix’s exhibition “Fragments d’humanités” at LUX - Scène Nationale de Valence “Archéologies” group exhibition at Dar Bellarj https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1666682049088-IP8TFG50F9KIZH0EVWN1/objets_relais_installation10.jpg Objets-Relais https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/ojala daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601415946808-4AU0CA2X66RK1QMHKO6A/image-asset.jpeg Ojalá: la vuelta al origen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601415946808-4AU0CA2X66RK1QMHKO6A/image-asset.jpeg Ojalá: la vuelta al origen - OJALA: LA VUELTA AL ORIGEN documentary feature film Year: 2018 Ojalá: la vuelta al origen is a documentary feature film about being a Palestinian descendant in Chile and maintaining the cultural resistance through dance. From the perspective of bellydance and Dabke teacher Anne Marie Lolas, the film creates a conversation between diasporic identities and the practice of art. Columbia University Scholars Program Independent Research Fellowship Screening and installation in conversation with “Becoming Palestine” by Lina Meruane hosted by Reid Hall, the Columbia University Paris Global Center - 10.08.2018 / 10.09.2018 Selected at the 2019 Haifa Independent Film Festival Nominated for the Best Documentary Award at Cairo International Short Film Festival Screening as part of films for Palestine at Abrams Claghorn Gallery Screening at Al Raqs conference 2025 Screening at Festival Fantazie 2025 Screening as part of a season of Arabic Culture at MARSM UK https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/su-gente daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1539352962758-UA6RY8ENHVRNTKALTD05/to+trace+the+steps.jpg Su gente, su cielo, su aroma - SU GENTE, SU CIELO, SU AROMA (ITS PEOPLE, ITS SKY, ITS SCENT) (Copy) VIDEO INSTALLATION In progress Su gente, su cielo, su aroma (Its people, its sky, its scent) is a work in progress on the relationship between Palestinians in Palestine and Palestinians in Chile, comparing the passed-on nostalgia of the Palestinians of the diaspora with that of the Palestinians who stayed. The installation is composed of two videos shot in Bethlehem and Beit Jala (Palestine): to trace the steps and Chilean visions of Palestine / Who owns Dabke. “On the road” - artist residency in Palestine (organized by the French German Cultural Center in Ramallah) Exhibition of the work in progress in Bethlehem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1539352962758-UA6RY8ENHVRNTKALTD05/to+trace+the+steps.jpg Su gente, su cielo, su aroma - SU GENTE, SU CIELO, SU AROMA (ITS PEOPLE, ITS SKY, ITS SCENT) video installation Year: 2018 Su gente, su cielo, su aroma (Its people, its sky, its scent) is an installation on the relationship between Palestinians in Palestine and Palestinians in Chile, comparing the passed-on nostalgia of the Palestinians of the diaspora with that of the Palestinians who stayed. The installation is composed of two videos shot in Bethlehem and Beit Jala (Palestine): to trace the steps, a meeting with people in Bethlehem who have family in Chile; and Chilean visions of Palestine / Who owns Dabke, an exploration of what the inherited nostalgia of what Palestine used to be, feels like when in Palestine. Part of the latter is a conversation with teenagers from Beit Jala around the ownership over Palestinian culture and Dabke in particular. “On the road” - artist residency in Palestine (organized by the French German Cultural Center in Ramallah) Exhibition of the work in progress in Bethlehem https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/embodied-border daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1541434588385-FGKDHO8YRP1Q7WD1SKH0/3.a+myst.jpg The Embodied Border - THE EMBODIED BORDER: WORDS FOR POLITICAL FICTION (Copy) EXHIBITION search for funding after a first show at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers Directed by MYST (artist collective: Yasmine Benabdallah, Simone Fehlinger, Tamara Al Saadi) The exhibition explores through installations and research spaces the question of the border in contemporary wars and conflicts, arguing that the frontier as a line is both process and political fiction. The trace on the (modern) map is only possible by the design of the Self and the Other through images, sounds and language. In contrast and in addition to the imagery of war reporting, the exhibition focusses on the word as a basis to the construction of the embodied border. Interdisciplinary conference hosted by Reid Hall, the Columbia University Paris Global Center - 10.02-03.2018 Participants: political geographer Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, dancer and choreographer Bolewa Sabourin, theater researcher Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti, and architect and editor Léopold Lambert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1541434588385-FGKDHO8YRP1Q7WD1SKH0/3.a+myst.jpg The Embodied Border - THE EMBODIED BORDER: WORDS FOR POLITICAL FICTION exhibition by MYST (artist collective: Yasmine Benabdallah, Simone Fehlinger, Tamara Al Saadi) The exhibition explores through installations and research spaces the question of the border in contemporary wars and conflicts, arguing that the frontier as a line is both process and political fiction. The trace on the (modern) map is only possible by the design of the Self and the Other through images, sounds and language. In contrast and in addition to the imagery of war reporting, the exhibition focusses on the word as a basis to the construction of the embodied border. First show at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers Interdisciplinary conference hosted by Reid Hall, the Columbia University Paris Global Center - 10.02-03.2018 https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/our-success daily 0.75 2021-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1503498840187-CM31LCQGXKY3Q7YS6NYM/1.a+Allah+made+me+queer.png Our success is in sharing space - ALLAH MADE ME QUEER (Copy) DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM Director and Producer In post-production Allah made me queer is a documentary short film about identifying as both Muslim and queer. The film follows two artists in the development of their multi-genre performance Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love, as they call upon and perform their own life experiences to examine the intersection of queerness and Islam. Between religious chants and coming out anecdotes, they take their private life to the public, bringing a conflicted identity met with resistance from their very own families, onto the stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1624033522046-LPL5IG78CV39L02HUHB6/Screen+Shot+2021-06-18+at+5.22.59+PM.png Our success is in sharing space - OUR SUCCESS IS IN SHARING SPACE or ALLAH MADE ME QUEER short film/video installation Year: 2022 Our success is in sharing space or Allah made me queer is a three-act short film about identifying as both Muslim and queer, about spirituality, identity, negotiating the intimate and the shared. Between religious chants and coming out anecdotes, Wazina and Terna perform and take their private life to the public, bringing a conflicted identity met with resistance from their very own families, onto the stage. Selected at the 2022 Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest Selected at the 2024 9issassna festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1624265137086-IXWVEHYXPEF8KL2T6HOQ/Screen+Shot+2021-06-21+at+9.41.34+AM.png Our success is in sharing space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1624265137081-6JS3KPVGOOVOQHYRMUD5/Screen+Shot+2021-06-21+at+9.42.00+AM.png Our success is in sharing space https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1624265137872-BOCT2LEBNRHHYIWIUA27/Screen+Shot+2021-06-21+at+9.42.14+AM.png Our success is in sharing space https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/observational daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603988265565-VTUDDP6CV4XTD04DEIRV/7.a%2BObservational.jpg Observational - OBSERVATIONAL (Copy) DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM Director and Editor Year: 2017 An observational exercise on surveillance and access to images of surveillance. https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/travel-curiosity daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603989618576-YXDU1M5TJEPLR426SHYA/8.b%2BThe%2BTravel%2BCuriosity.jpg The Travel Curiosity https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/real-world daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1512406570803-2CKQKYZ63HGZ5R7EFC80/Screen+Shot+2017-12-04+at+17.48.49.png The Real World Syndrome https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/sabat-amwaj-1 daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603991657783-0PTOLF7H24QVZ0HN6IWM/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-29%2Bat%2B6.10.08%2BPM.jpg Sab‘at ’Amwaj https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1624030708442-3G3VY6JB452EZBSBGCL9/Screen+Shot+2021-06-18+at+4.37.35+PM.png Sab‘at ’Amwaj - SAB‘AT ’AMWAJ video installation Year: 2021 A silent video on loop of a ritual in the sea, accompanied with an audio piece in which I speak of memory, the Atlantic, history, science fiction, and gaps in the sand. "Sab‘at ’Amwaj" is raw, imperfect, and anchored. It speaks to vulnerability and care, avoids the exoticization of our rituals, and straddles object of art and object of research. The ritual and the piece itself are intimately linked to lineage. A desire to keep, to record, not to forget. Finding beauty in knowledge, in memory, in transmission: a sense of belonging, of pertaining to a longer legacy. But also finding beauty in the things that get diluted with time, turn into tales, never to know which part was real and which wasn’t. The installation looks at the ocean as a space of separation and a space of linkage, attempting to rekindle the rituals that have bound our bodies and the ocean for generations and which have been erased by modernization and colonization. I invite a return of our bodies to bodies of water, to think and feel an embodied and haptic experience as an alternative to the western and removed experience of the ocean. And yet, the image and the sound are separated, echoing a tension and a need for opacity. “Sab‘at ’amwaj is a Moroccan ritual where you stand in the ocean and wait for seven waves to wash over you. The water takes away your troubles, offering you renewal, a part of you fading in the waves.” [Transcribed Excerpt from the audio] Part of “Lost, not to be found”, a month-long online programme in response to Untitled curatorial duo’s project “If a tree falls in a forest”, funded by Les rencontres d’Arles and Institut Français. MENA Film Festival 2022 https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/sundown-conversations daily 0.75 2021-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1603991657783-0PTOLF7H24QVZ0HN6IWM/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-29%2Bat%2B6.10.08%2BPM.jpg Sundown Conversations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1624031182844-7DFMPUUT1917CP0Z2HH7/radio.jpeg Sundown Conversations - SUNDOWN CONVERSATIONS radio show Sundown Conversations was a daily half-hour radio show I co-hosted with Karim Kattan, which was broadcasted live from June 7 to June 13, at 3:30pm BST. The piece was commissioned by Soukaina Aboulaoula as part of Right On Time radio, a temporary web radio station for Sheffield DocFest 2021. With sunset right around the corner, we discussed how an awareness of time affects our practice, and invited other artists to share in the discussion. A moment of in-betweenness, shifting lights, and generative bewilderment, twilight was an ideal pause to take stock of our relationship to time, as humans and as artists. We invited filmmakers Lina Soualem and Mounir-Aïcha Soussan, and photographer Rebecca Topakian, to share their artistic practice and that space with us. Image credit: drawing by Aziza Ahmed, courtesy from AWU radio. https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/are-we-to-ever-be-material-again daily 0.75 2022-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601416103997-CBQ9NR65IH1YR4HN3EEX/6.a%2BChebba.jpg Are we to ever be material again https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1641332869998-1LR09OYKQSCQ6UFLY1PA/Are+we+to+ever+be+material+again.png Are we to ever be material again - ARE WE TO EVER BE MATERIAL AGAIN? video Year: 2022 Are we to ever be material again? is a video piece, set as a recorded virtual conversation between two versions of myself. The conference call platform is explored as a time-space travel portal, allowing questions of belonging, connection, technology, and embodiment to arise. Screening and panel at Screening Scholarship Media Festival https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/visions-of-a-dreamt-sunset daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601416103997-CBQ9NR65IH1YR4HN3EEX/6.a%2BChebba.jpg Visions of a dreamt sunset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1641333061612-JDVW0588EAXZ560R1DJ0/Visions+of+a+dreamt+sunset.png Visions of a dreamt sunset - VISIONS OF A DREAMT SUNSET video/essay film Year: 2023 Visions of a dreamt sunset brings together images of landscapes in Tangier, archive, posters from 1950s American films, my hands trying to save film from drowning, sounds of the water meeting my voice. A travelogue about a fragmented me and Tangier, a city with a different colonial past. I stare at the ocean, hoping it can help us reconnect. I seek refuge in dreams of a sunset. I look for answers in the colonial film legacy of the city, hoping to reverse the spell and invite healing. Qisas artist residency at Cinémathèque de Tanger, Tangier, Morocco “Decolonial Futures Workshop Series: The Womb Republic - How to Rebirth” screening at Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands “Video night” at Le Cube Independent Art Room, Rabat, Morocco Official Selection at Olhares do Mediterrâneo 2024, Lisbon, Portugal “Tears of Fog” group exhibition at Le 18, Marrakech, Morocco “South by South: A View From Tangier” screening at South London Gallery, England “Film as bandage and temporalities in the Postcolony” at Tabakalera, San Sebastián, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/how-to-reverse-a-spell daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601416103997-CBQ9NR65IH1YR4HN3EEX/6.a%2BChebba.jpg How to reverse a spell: the promise of an archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1644707515685-E8R0NM7WBHJ7F3VUUBWP/How+to+reverse+a+spell.png How to reverse a spell: the promise of an archive - HOW TO REVERSE A SPELL: THE PROMISE OF AN ARCHIVE video Year: 2022 How to reverse a spell: the promise of an archive is a speculative triptych that traverses the disappearance and erasure of the Moroccan public archives and their colonial displacement. Frames waiting for their images, videos once stolen of a colonized people, a solar flare waiting to happen for everything to be restituted. The film is a call for access to our archives and their restitution from past colonizers, attempting, through the fabric of internet and lo-fi images, to reverse the colonial spell and make the videos appear again. Not asking for the right to use these images that were once stolen and smuggling them instead is an act of refusal and an act of return. Screening at documenta fifteen, as part of the Decolonizing Archives talks hosted by lumbung artist Le 18 Best Experimental Short Film award, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation “Memories in Strife” screening at Wekalet Behna/SAVVY Contemporary “Make History: Filed and Concealed “screening at Jameel Arts Centre “Video night” at Le Cube Independent Art Room, Rabat, Morocco Network of Alternative Arab Screens (NAAS) and Sharjah Film Circulation Initiative: Tiro Art (Tyre, Lebanon); Fédération Tunisienne des Ciné-Clubs (Tunisia); Cairo Animation School (Egypt); Yabous Cultural Centre - Al Quds Cinema (Jerusalem, Palestine) Beyond The Seventh Gate: Contemporary Moroccan artists’ moving image, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Scotland SAAED Meetings, Marrakech, Morocco “How to Reverse a Spell” group exhibition at Lehmann Contemporary, Porto, Portugal https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/the-one-with-the-manes daily 0.75 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601416103997-CBQ9NR65IH1YR4HN3EEX/6.a%2BChebba.jpg The one with the manes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1655475735159-T7UUNF0FTEXS60OSD2R5/ocean+2.png The one with the manes - THE ONE WITH THE MANES exhibition project "The one with the manes" is a multimedia exhibition exploring a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video installations, photographs, and watercolors. Inspired by a forced exodus across the Atlantic, the exhibition explores rituality, memory, archives, and embodiment. The installations offer subtle gestures that defamiliarize the art space and bear witness to the invisible erasures operated by power. “Manes,” signifying both ancestral souls and lions' manes, permeate the exhibition's liquid, opaque structure. By focusing on sensory experiences, the installations aim to erode, infiltrate, and reimagine archives. They foreground bodies’ resonances through the past and present, envisioning liberatory futures. In the eighteenth century, the Portuguese who had colonized a city on the coast of Morocco which they named Mazagão (name of indigenous origin meaning the one with the manes), forced an exodus of two thousand people, Portuguese and slaves of unknown origins to Brazil, to a settlement they named Nova Mazagão. The project explores this thread between Morocco and Brazil, countries with different histories but with common paradoxes in the past, present, and future, using science fiction as a prism. Memory and oral history open collective conversations about our relationship to time and to bending it. One of the installations in the project is "Sab‘at ’Amwaj.” More information on the installation can be found here. Artist residency at Hangar in August 2022 Artist residency at Le Cube in August 2023 Santa Cruz County Arts Council Create Grant “Amending Worlds” group exhibition at the MAH in Santa Cruz “The one with the manes” solo exhibition at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/messages-so-full-of-love-and-rage daily 0.75 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601416103997-CBQ9NR65IH1YR4HN3EEX/6.a%2BChebba.jpg ڭمطتك messages so full of love and rage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1655477478857-MRCW5LAL1S52GEK7NM60/2.jpg ڭمطتك messages so full of love and rage - ڭمطتك MESSAGES SO FULL OF LOVE AND RAGE multimedia installation Year: 2022 ڭمطتك messages so full of love and rage is composed of two silent videos on loop and a letter written on paper made of cotton half-stuff, cloves, dried roses, and orange blossom water (paper made in collaboration with Annika Berry). The installation explores rituals of care, time travel, memory, and colonial clocks. Commissioned for Al Mahal, a project curated by Loren Elhili that questions Moroccan migration to the UK. Funded by British Council Morocco. Exhibited in May and June 2022 in London, UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1655477451798-AP07NKY482VDQ9F1LRIW/4.png ڭمطتك messages so full of love and rage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1655477973952-1BC26GZ6D7D2KGIPLT1X/4.jpg ڭمطتك messages so full of love and rage https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/decolonizing-archives-manifesto daily 0.75 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601416103997-CBQ9NR65IH1YR4HN3EEX/6.a%2BChebba.jpg Decolonizing archives manifesto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1688555140309-YMSN7027DUWBBAL8N0FR/20230702_154153.jpg Decolonizing archives manifesto - DECOLONIZING ARCHIVES MANIFESTO series of conversations and writing workshops (ongoing) The project co-developed with Rim Mejdi (Moroccan filmmaker and artist) aims to create a collective manifesto to decolonize the Moroccan archives. It is a project that is grounded in intimate accounts of the conditions of history/ies’ erasure and dispossession perpetuated by the ongoing fabrication of a missing and inaccessible archive in the Moroccan context. Emerged from direct experiences and through conversations that took place among others during the Ch[a]rita program 2021, co-curated by Rim Mejdi, Francesca Masoero, and Nouha Ben Yebdri and hosted by LE 18, Dar Bellarj Foundation, and Mahal Art Space, the project calls for the collective writing of a manifesto to address the politics of access to archives in and from Morocco. The beginning of our project was recently published in a podcast on Screen Worlds, a decolonizing film and screen studies platform hosted by SOAS, University of London. In June 2022, we were invited to organize two talks at documenta, where we presented the manifesto project and exchanged with Subversive Film, a Palestinian collective who have been working on similar projects of archiving, as well as preservation under colonization. We shared our approaches to processes of decolonizing archives in our respective contexts, expanding on ideas at the root of this decolonial project and methodologies related to internal and/or external politics, methods of address to institutions, and intersectional experiences and how they influence our diverse forms of political existence and resistance. In July 2023, as part of the Building Archives program co-organized by Dar Bellarj and Le 18, Rim and I co-organized "Freeing Moroccan Archives from Colonialism", a three-day workshop in Marrakech which gathered artists, researchers, and cultural actors to read, discuss, and write a manifesto together. https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/hold-my-hand daily 0.75 2022-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601416103997-CBQ9NR65IH1YR4HN3EEX/6.a%2BChebba.jpg Hold my hand and keep me afloat / Fragment 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1672488919790-2NS55L4NSSMQHG9BYC99/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-12-23%2Bat%2B7.49.50%2BPM.jpg Hold my hand and keep me afloat / Fragment 1 - HOLD MY HAND AND KEEP ME AFLOAT / FRAGMENT 1 performance Year: 2022 Hold my hand and keep me afloat / Fragment 1 is a performance that takes on a lecture format, which questions recording and preservation through film and its encounter with the ephemerality of ritual. In a reenactment, I film the redwoods, and the redwoods film me. My body multiplies in the dance and, within the duplication, turns into fragments. The relationship and dissonance between my body initiating the performance in the studio space, my body initiating the ritual on screen, and my body holding the memory of the first ritual, are reflected in the way images, sounds, and my live reading interact. There is disembodiment in the refraction in the mirrors, the ghostly presences, between the camera, the editing software, the computer hardware, the projection screen, and my body standing behind a lectern. I read from different registers, from personal and experiential to academic, from Moroccan darija to English, some translated, some not. Navigating archives between rigidity and fluidity, recording and salvage ethnography, self-representation and opacity, the (mis)translations speak to the fits, pain, and jarring of a body that appears to be still behind the lectern. https://www.yasminebenabdallah.com/desert-wash daily 0.75 2023-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1601416103997-CBQ9NR65IH1YR4HN3EEX/6.a%2BChebba.jpg Desert Wash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/599c793dd7bdced38889d2ca/1698639081754-TWA6BHF9SJNMZ4X42540/Still.jpg Desert Wash - DESERT WASH Filmed in the Anza-Borrego Desert and Salton Sea in Southern California, Desert Wash is a 3-channel video installation which combines images of desert landscapes, modernist architecture, and performances by Rotunda Collective (Yasmine Benabdallah and Nena Hedrick). An encounter with the Borrego Springs Desert Club, now functioning as the University of California Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center, explores property, land use, and settler colonial illusion of wild and empty desert. The artists’ bodies enter into conversation with modernist architecture to re-emerge histories and projections of control and temporalities in tension. The images and sound are referential of movies filmed in the Anza-Borrego desert, often to signify deserts elsewhere, reflecting cinema’s historical production of an iconography of the desert as narrative backdrop. Spatialized sound washes over the visitors as they’re invited to watch the images on 3 floating screens arranged in a semi-hexagonal shape in the center of the room. Amphitheater-like rows of seats are set back on either side of the screens.