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    Life on the CAPS - Trilogy

    Meriem Bennani 2022 Morocco, Switzerland color 75min DCP
    date time venue guests rating
    10/16 21:20 Spot Huasan A Two P
    10/21 13:00 Spot Huasan A One P
    Set in a dystopian future, the trilogy takes place in the CAPS, where migrants are interned after teleporting “illegally” across borders. The film centers the resilience and dynamism of diasporic cultures, presenting a layered audiovisual commentary on the meaning of data, diaspora, and collective resistance.

    Director

    Meriem Bennani

    A Morocco-born artist lives and works in New York. She has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures and immersive installations widely shown in numerous solo exhibitions and retrospectives around the world, notably been presented at the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, the Guggenheim Museum, Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Nottingham Contemporary, Renaissance Society in Chicago and Kamel Lazaar Foundation in Tunis. Often referencing globalized popular culture and the fractured states of modern society, Bennani’s films address the complexity of identities and the issues related to gender, exile, migration, community and the omnipresence of digital technologies. She weaves together humor and critique to explore the political force of collective life, while highlighting the power dynamics that shape our hyper-connected societies. Her works shift easily from music videos to animation, via found footage or documentary material, subverting dominant narratives and opening them up to new, often idiosyncratic and absurdist forms of storytelling. © Valentina Sommariva

    Meriem Bennani

    Director, Editor Meriem Bennani
    Cinematographer Alex Gvojic
    Music Fatima Al Qadiri
    Sound James Kelly

    Meriem Bennani Studio
    meriembennanistudio@gmail.com

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