During a research stay in Tangier, I worked around the story of Omar Ba, a Senegalese migrant in transit. From this experience emerged an exchange of films and objects. A child’s sandal, a piece of fabric, a jerrycan, a prayer notebook became the obsessive focus of another quest, a new mythology. This raises the question of how to preserve the memory of these migratory narratives. Here, staged in a cinematic essay with the dancer Barbara Sarreau, this question is explored through the lens of tragedya tragedy from which we will surely have to learn to be reborn one day...
Malik Nejmi
Director
Sherman's March65%
180° South72%
Sidney70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
McQueen74%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Heart of a Dog65%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
The Class of ‘9271%
Public Speaking70%
Finders Keepers65%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Extremis69%
Dawg Fight65%
Report61%
Directed by John Ford70%
