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Friday, November 27, 2020 - 17:00
Written by:
RANDA MAROUFI
Cast:
Young folk of Yasmina Park (Rayan, Walid Achouikh, Abdellah Adnan, Reda Afandi, Nora Aitlkadi, Nisrine Barakat, Achraf Beckoury, Abdellah Belkaid…)
Cinematography:
Luca Coassin
Editing:
Randa Maroufi
Producer:
Alain Fleischer
Oftentimes, greener pastures veil arid realities, diverting awareness and placating concern. In the case of Casablanca’s Arab League Park, RANDA MAROUFI sweeps us past its green idyll and lets us loose ‘on the wrong side of its fence.’ Instead of touristic leisure, our floating POV captures derelict carousels among wild vegetation and rubbish-strewn walking paths. This is the stomping ground of Morocco's urban youth, heard through fractured voice-overs as they perform in front of digital cameras for the approval of social media. Materializing this presence-as-posture through still-lifes of bodies in mid-action, THE PARK offers a (privileged) virtual flânerie in a space where youthful abandon and societal fears converge. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF 2016)
Director:
RANDA MAROUFI (born in 1987 in Casablanca, Morocco, a Fine Arts graduate at Tetouan (Morocco), Angers (France) and Le Fresnoy (France)) belongs to this generation that grew up in an era dominated by images. She collects them with as much eagerness as suspicion, and ceaselessly questions their veracity. She prefers to put her ambiguous fictions in the service of reality, and the field of her experimentation encompasses the occupation of public space and gender issues, of which she highlights the founding mechanisms. Her work goes through photography, installation, performance, sound and film, has been presented at major contemporary art event and film festivals such as The Marrakech Biennale, International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is currently living and working in Paris, France. Her filmography includes BAB SEBTA (2019), STAND-BY OFFICE (2017), THE GREAT SAFAE (2014), and DEAR DAD (2013).
Contact:
Natalia Trebik - Head of Distribution and Festivals
Festivals, awards:
Award for Best Visual Concept - Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival 2016 / Special Mention - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016 / Prix de l’ADAGP – Exhibition Panorama17, France 2015 / New Directors/New Films, New York 2016 / Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival 2016 / IndieLisboa 2016 / Festival International du Film sur l'Art, Montreal 2016 / 25fps Film Festival, Croatia 2015 / Winterthur International Short Film Festival 2015 / Med Film Festival, Rome 2015 / Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt 2015 / Poitiers Film Festival, France 2015.
“Desire to question different points of view and to multiply the possibilities: politically charged moments, danger frozen in time, instants before acting out... between immediacy and illusion, audience observes "something about to happen" and is invited to accept an experience of duration.” (RANDA MAROUFI)