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6/12Morocco1968 1968. Morocco. Directed by Ahmed Bouanani, Abdelmajid R’chich, Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi. 18 min. “We chose images in a city, moments: absence and the solitude of wet cobblestones at a dull party that has ended; suddenly a shade; suddenly a gesture, a footstep; the sea or silence; silence or the cry; waiting or dread; sleep or insomnia; a sign of light that surges; a heart caught between two digits; our faces in the storm; two white-hot figures carved on foreheads; eyes, bodies spinning round like magnets in the storm” (Ahmed Bouanani). Synopsis “We chose images in a city, moments: absence and the solitude of wet cobblestones at a dull party that has ended; suddenly a shade; suddenly a gesture, a footstep; the sea or silence; silence or the cry; waiting or dread; sleep or insomnia; a sign of light that surges; a heart caught between two digits; our faces in the storm; two white-hot figures carved on foreheads; eyes, bodies spinning round like magnets in the storm” (Ahmed Bouanani). Filmmaker's Biography Ahmed Bouanani (1938-2011) was a Moroccan poet, writer, editor, and filmmaker. He co-founded the production collective Sigma 3 with Mohamed Abderahman Tazi and Mohamed Sekkat in the early 1970s, and his first feature film, The Mirage, is considered a milestone in Arab cinema. |