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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Bab Sebta
Randa Maroufi
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Credits: Barney Production
Credits: Barney Production
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Credits: Barney Production
Credits: Barney Production
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Credits: Barney Production
Credits: Barney Production
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Credits: Barney Production
Credits: Barney Production
Bab Sebta consists of a series of reconstructed situations based on observations made on the border of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil that provides the scene for an intense trafficking of manufactured goods, sold at discounted prices. Every day, thousands of people work there. Bab Sebta can be considered as an artistic experiment that questions the limits of the representation. Proceeding from the same economy found in Lars Von Trier's Dogville (2003), which reduces and eliminates all elements of scenery, there is no image of the city of Ceuta, so that all attention is paid to the gestures.
The protagonists were people who actually worked at the border of Ceuta and whom I asked to play themselves. They were equipped with their bags and working clothes.
The film was shot from two different points of view, a zenith and a frontal one. The whole film is composed only of still shots. All camera movements are virtual, the floor drawings and signage were added in post-production.
In this film, I aim to convey both the particular tension felt on this small territory separating Africa from Europe and also a more general state of the world. I wanted to raise the question of the passage between continents from the perspective of everyday life.
Links: https://vimeo.com/361075796
The protagonists were people who actually worked at the border of Ceuta and whom I asked to play themselves. They were equipped with their bags and working clothes.
The film was shot from two different points of view, a zenith and a frontal one. The whole film is composed only of still shots. All camera movements are virtual, the floor drawings and signage were added in post-production.
In this film, I aim to convey both the particular tension felt on this small territory separating Africa from Europe and also a more general state of the world. I wanted to raise the question of the passage between continents from the perspective of everyday life.
Links: https://vimeo.com/361075796
Bab Sebta by Randa Maroufi
Production: Barney Production & Monfleuri Production
Director: Randa Maroufi
Producer: Said Hamich Benlarbi & Sophie Penson
Associate producer: Randa Maroufi
Voiceover: Nouha Ben Yebdri, Ahmed Ben Youssef, Mohamed Mohrach
DOP: Luca Coassin
Camera assistant: Othmane Mansouri, Taoufik Ait Baha
Sound: Mohamed Bounouar, Abla Boumlik, Leonore Mercier, Christian Cartier
Decor: Khaled El Attafi, Abdellatif El Rhazouani, Anas Yamine
Editing: Ismael Joffroy Chandoutis, Randa Maroufi
Special effects: Paul Guilbert, Gregory Mc Grew
Color grading: Laurent Navarri
With support from: AFAC - Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, La Fondation des Artistes, La Casa de Velazquez, CNC, Doha Film Institute, FIDlab, Kamal Lazar, France 2
Production: Barney Production & Monfleuri Production
Director: Randa Maroufi
Producer: Said Hamich Benlarbi & Sophie Penson
Associate producer: Randa Maroufi
Voiceover: Nouha Ben Yebdri, Ahmed Ben Youssef, Mohamed Mohrach
DOP: Luca Coassin
Camera assistant: Othmane Mansouri, Taoufik Ait Baha
Sound: Mohamed Bounouar, Abla Boumlik, Leonore Mercier, Christian Cartier
Decor: Khaled El Attafi, Abdellatif El Rhazouani, Anas Yamine
Editing: Ismael Joffroy Chandoutis, Randa Maroufi
Special effects: Paul Guilbert, Gregory Mc Grew
Color grading: Laurent Navarri
With support from: AFAC - Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, La Fondation des Artistes, La Casa de Velazquez, CNC, Doha Film Institute, FIDlab, Kamal Lazar, France 2
Randa Maroufi (MA/FR). Born in 1987 in Casablanca. She currently lives and works in Paris. The experimental works of filmmaker and artist Randa Maroufi explore an elastic awareness of reality. Her films and moving images often employ special effects and other formal devices that alter perceptions of time, space, and movement. She has received many awards for her film Le Park (2015), and Bab Sebta (2019). Maroufi is a graduate of the National Institute of Fine Arts, Tetouan, MA (2010) and the School of Fine Arts, Angers, FR (2013). She also earned a diploma from Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, FR (2015). Randa Maroufi was Artist Member of the French Academy in Madrid at Casa de Velazquez in 2018.