https://samybenammar.com Samy Benammar Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:53:32 +0000 https://samybenammar.com en https://samybenammar.com/Samy-Benammar Mon, 01 Nov 2021 13:48:25 +0000 Samy Benammar https://samybenammar.com/Samy-Benammar https://samybenammar.com/avant-seriana Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:25:00 +0000 Samy Benammar https://samybenammar.com/avant-seriana avant seriana2024 | Super 8 to HD | Color | 5.1 | 19min Mom, you brought me back to our homeland. All I know about these harsh landscapes I learned from books written by the hand that burned these mountains. I try to undo the colonial myths engraved into my memory, but the hills escape my gaze. Do you think I, too, have become the white djinn spoken of by the legends surrounding our martyrs? Avant Seriana'is an essay film shot in Super 8 in the Aurès region of Algeria. Observing the landscapes of my native land, I realize that they are divided into several images and times. Two different countries are formed : the Algeria of the mountains and an imaginary one born of the tales I've read in colonial archives. My gaze no longer belongs to the places where I was hoping to return to my roots. &nbsp;<img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39bf9e453953b4ce71c9bcb8674c31b2d3fa1231ef62efd7d88e321920f6e553/01.png" data-mid="221066114" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39bf9e453953b4ce71c9bcb8674c31b2d3fa1231ef62efd7d88e321920f6e553/01.png" /><img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c43124e46c9eafd52945cc2cd7cc7f8ac0da191584c8e18991dec4a23d45cfdb/vlcsnap-2023-11-20-19h40m58s626.png" data-mid="221066094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c43124e46c9eafd52945cc2cd7cc7f8ac0da191584c8e18991dec4a23d45cfdb/vlcsnap-2023-11-20-19h40m58s626.png" /><img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/937d05e593ce2f50bfa8dc498af312faa68f66669779f2e312221b6817873745/vlcsnap-2023-11-20-19h40m37s545.png" data-mid="221066095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/937d05e593ce2f50bfa8dc498af312faa68f66669779f2e312221b6817873745/vlcsnap-2023-11-20-19h40m37s545.png" /><img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/596dbf8d98e980d897d8561cc22fdd69294e33b70185fbe7ae50db85d057bc51/vlcsnap-2023-11-20-19h40m17s194.png" data-mid="221066096" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/596dbf8d98e980d897d8561cc22fdd69294e33b70185fbe7ae50db85d057bc51/vlcsnap-2023-11-20-19h40m17s194.png" /><img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64517f8724b04d71ea2f462955f70d5de25181ae99451610200a223d2c4bb7bb/vlcsnap-2023-11-20-19h40m00s630.png" data-mid="221066097" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64517f8724b04d71ea2f462955f70d5de25181ae99451610200a223d2c4bb7bb/vlcsnap-2023-11-20-19h40m00s630.png" /><img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4343130605586e5cd396f0bf31b14b69d22f470efa9ae089857e5267efd16d78/05.png" data-mid="221066115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4343130605586e5cd396f0bf31b14b69d22f470efa9ae089857e5267efd16d78/05.png" /> https://samybenammar.com/adieu-ugarit Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:53:32 +0000 Samy Benammar https://samybenammar.com/adieu-ugarit adieu ugarit | وداعاً أوغاريت&nbsp; 2024 | 16mm to HD | Color | 5.1 | 15min &nbsp; In 2012, Mohamed had seen his best friend shot dead by an armed militia on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria; the blood spilled in the lake contaminated his memory. Ten years on, the reflections on the Laurentian waters revive Mohamed's trauma. I ask him if he'd like to dredge up the memories, repair the pain by retreating for a few days to the most distressing calm he can find. He talks about death, immigration and anger. We wonder how and why we should recount this story. <img width="1536" height="1152" width_o="1536" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c6b0b49128ffb6b36724bbd8ccbbc3596c288ce70e2ac101b76da1b1f3b41d8/vlcsnap-2024-08-19-14h30m22s907.png" data-mid="221066019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c6b0b49128ffb6b36724bbd8ccbbc3596c288ce70e2ac101b76da1b1f3b41d8/vlcsnap-2024-08-19-14h30m22s907.png" /> <img width="1536" height="1152" width_o="1536" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21dada178402ca950c3e9791a0d2ab2203adf7e7f17ae26feb4dd4c4aa92f1ec/vlcsnap-2024-08-19-14h30m14s872.png" data-mid="221066020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21dada178402ca950c3e9791a0d2ab2203adf7e7f17ae26feb4dd4c4aa92f1ec/vlcsnap-2024-08-19-14h30m14s872.png" /> <img width="1536" height="1152" width_o="1536" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/986d383caccd1070114eda57832b3253b3042da3a239ce27990cd94a5c45b1bf/vlcsnap-2024-08-19-14h29m49s767.png" data-mid="221066021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/986d383caccd1070114eda57832b3253b3042da3a239ce27990cd94a5c45b1bf/vlcsnap-2024-08-19-14h29m49s767.png" /> <img width="1536" height="1152" width_o="1536" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebc069e1151409cdbc3b55e30adb817ed15f6961f6c3f6da39750dac5718ed9b/vlcsnap-2024-08-19-14h29m35s420.png" data-mid="221066022" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ebc069e1151409cdbc3b55e30adb817ed15f6961f6c3f6da39750dac5718ed9b/vlcsnap-2024-08-19-14h29m35s420.png" /> <img width="1536" height="1152" width_o="1536" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e87703676c1187858fde7a6f3e6cd5003d8065ca7e8602a6f5b796789392339/vlcsnap-2024-08-19-14h29m24s101.png" data-mid="221066023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e87703676c1187858fde7a6f3e6cd5003d8065ca7e8602a6f5b796789392339/vlcsnap-2024-08-19-14h29m24s101.png" /> https://samybenammar.com/kaua-i-o-o Sun, 23 Oct 2022 17:21:23 +0000 Samy Benammar https://samybenammar.com/kaua-i-o-o kauaʻi ʻōʻō 2023 | HD | Color | Stereo | 3min&nbsp; In 2000, the International Union for Conservation of Nature officially declared the Kauai Oʻō extinct. All that remains of this endemic bird of the Hawaiian island of the same name is the recording of its singing by ornithologist David Boynton.Between territories and treetops, I'm still looking for a trace of the vanished birds. Screenings : &gt; Festival du film sur l’art de Montréal 2023 &gt; MUFF Harrisburg 2023 &gt; Kabayitos Microcinema 2023 &gt; Symposium de cinéma expérimental à la Cinémathèque québécoise 2023 &gt; Percéides 2023 &gt; Mire Nantes 2023 &gt; Tous courts Aix en Provence. Meilleur court-métrage expérimental. &gt; RVQC 2024 &gt; Experiments in Cinema! Albuquerque 2024 &gt; Programme Envol, Collectif Braquage, Paris &gt; Artifact Film Festval, Calgary 2024 &gt; Rewilding Experimental Media Arts Festival Michigan 2024 &gt; FIFEQ, Montréal. 2024 <img width="2250" height="3000" width_o="2250" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/994bc22e789588b778404372ebc27f532889d75a111b45254aea18a997e31fdd/viopi.png" data-mid="221066142" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/994bc22e789588b778404372ebc27f532889d75a111b45254aea18a997e31fdd/viopi.png" /><img width="2880" height="2160" width_o="2880" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6ed842ba37a6174500b84cba4833a2331a67cf12e53147a392ced0980f21887/vlcsnap-2024-11-02-10h54m18s306.png" data-mid="221066140" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6ed842ba37a6174500b84cba4833a2331a67cf12e53147a392ced0980f21887/vlcsnap-2024-11-02-10h54m18s306.png" /> <img width="2880" height="2160" width_o="2880" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26a3e6d47316b814930c5c4f2aff2b2e42a5ca466a9fe9fed5d5849d45bf1e93/vlcsnap-2024-11-02-10h54m55s212.png" data-mid="221066139" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26a3e6d47316b814930c5c4f2aff2b2e42a5ca466a9fe9fed5d5849d45bf1e93/vlcsnap-2024-11-02-10h54m55s212.png" /> https://samybenammar.com/colosse Sun, 07 Nov 2021 01:47:01 +0000 Samy Benammar https://samybenammar.com/colosse colosse 20XX | HD | Color | Stereo | 15 min Only one horse is left standing against the digital flood, but the storm is getting stronger. We may already have brought down the colossi. The story of a collapse.Tribute to Malcolm Le Grice and Brian Eno realized in the video game Red Dead Redemption II. &nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad5147b1cca86d2cfc02caaa9ac754e7501391bd07cb8a84c17f4e6aada8a94c/vlcsnap-2021-12-20-13h03m11s022.png" data-mid="128520069" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad5147b1cca86d2cfc02caaa9ac754e7501391bd07cb8a84c17f4e6aada8a94c/vlcsnap-2021-12-20-13h03m11s022.png" /><img width="1481" height="1079" width_o="1481" height_o="1079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a733be05edfe50b287fec7c82ca921f0ff57cda6b1ac1b37ab4debcb5c52e49/vlcsnap-2021-11-20-23h15m58s636-2.png" data-mid="125379232" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a733be05edfe50b287fec7c82ca921f0ff57cda6b1ac1b37ab4debcb5c52e49/vlcsnap-2021-11-20-23h15m58s636-2.png" /><img width="1481" height="1079" width_o="1481" height_o="1079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/add65c01f968971d4bc6271f74fcc6b18c8d3a6561654b73f1b375646ff14393/vlcsnap-2021-11-20-23h17m00s078-2.png" data-mid="125379202" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/add65c01f968971d4bc6271f74fcc6b18c8d3a6561654b73f1b375646ff14393/vlcsnap-2021-11-20-23h17m00s078-2.png" /> https://samybenammar.com/sous-ex Wed, 03 Nov 2021 15:37:07 +0000 Samy Benammar https://samybenammar.com/sous-ex sous-ex 2022 | HD | Color | Stereo | 7minThe scanner resurrects our sweaty embraces on the film. <img width="2877" height="2157" width_o="2877" height_o="2157" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/545d5239369014d6d22762de981a4b1a9945c31317cafdc8489fecfbb3f9f173/vlcsnap-2021-11-06-19h29m28s611.png" data-mid="130859139" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/545d5239369014d6d22762de981a4b1a9945c31317cafdc8489fecfbb3f9f173/vlcsnap-2021-11-06-19h29m28s611.png" /> <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/911a955f3eebc8a3f10c4e9bde727113f634b3a0a52d67717ad1d2d85c24d633/photo_2021-10-31_13-13-35.jpg" data-mid="123536115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/911a955f3eebc8a3f10c4e9bde727113f634b3a0a52d67717ad1d2d85c24d633/photo_2021-10-31_13-13-35.jpg" /> https://samybenammar.com/peugeot-pulmonaire Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:44:49 +0000 Samy Benammar https://samybenammar.com/peugeot-pulmonaire peugeot pulmonaire2021 | HD | Color | Stereo | 23min The east of France is dying, we see a half-empty factory and a mass of workers caught between precariousness and impotence. X-rays of their calcified lungs scroll by at the rhythm of a mechanical press under which one suffocates. <img width="2400" height="3300" width_o="2400" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b311f23a0a63adaf387162c967000cbeef8144e756d3b3afc962b37d27878a69/PeugeotPulmonaire2_Affiche.png" data-mid="123494142" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b311f23a0a63adaf387162c967000cbeef8144e756d3b3afc962b37d27878a69/PeugeotPulmonaire2_Affiche.png" /> <img width="3130" height="2075" width_o="3130" height_o="2075" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f712720f3cf4ecb7fd74a59fa78d966227613fd923c882e1c2e5d3ee282c159a/009090950008.jpg.jpg" data-mid="123494141" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f712720f3cf4ecb7fd74a59fa78d966227613fd923c882e1c2e5d3ee282c159a/009090950008.jpg.jpg" /> https://samybenammar.com/assia Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:10:54 +0000 Samy Benammar https://samybenammar.com/assia assia 2017 | HD | Color | Stereo | 6min A sick child talks about her illness while watching strange images of a life she feels she has never lived. https://samybenammar.com/wvlnt Sun, 07 Nov 2021 01:27:10 +0000 Samy Benammar https://samybenammar.com/wvlnt WVLNT.bin (Wavelenght for Those who Play Videogames) 2021 | HD | Color | Stereo | 13min Tribute to Michael Snow filmed in the videogame Red Dead Redemption III https://samybenammar.com/kantara Sun, 23 Oct 2022 17:37:16 +0000 Samy Benammar https://samybenammar.com/kantara kantara <img width="2048" height="1357" width_o="2048" height_o="1357" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55c060a8a1a59eacc202300d932bb96758a54fd5c56cda9a8a5af9ea78d844e6/294488927_7690435640998230_1421437625792409353_n.jpg" data-mid="156727144" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55c060a8a1a59eacc202300d932bb96758a54fd5c56cda9a8a5af9ea78d844e6/294488927_7690435640998230_1421437625792409353_n.jpg" /> À la sortie d’El-Kantara, le barrage nous arrête. Les chiens, comme tu les appelles, me demandent mes papiers, éventrent mon sac, examinent mes appareils photo sous leurs yeux canins, violence bestiale au dos courbé par la nécessité de sculpter son échine à l’image d’un pays rongé par la corruption. Mon oncle s’énerve, je boue en silence, n’ai pas la langue pour la colère. Un autocar force les militaires à nous laisser aller. Aujourd’hui nous ne photographierons pas les Gorges d’El-Kantara, l’entrée du désert où sont passés avant moi Touaregs et colons, chasseurs de têtes et d’images. La porte d’or a fondu sous le soleil bouillant de Biskra. El-Kantara est ma première image manquante, j’apprends qu’il faudra baisser la tête et éteindre le regard, accepter la défaite des mémoires, construire un équilibre entre ce qui a été pris et ce qui ne sera jamais rendu. Eugène Fromentin les a dérobées une fois, l’histoire une deuxième. Tu m’as dit que l’Algérie avait perdu son indépendance en 1957, que dans les fissures de la terre sèche se sont alors immiscés ceux que tu appelles goumis - ceux qui voleront bientôt les lumières de la Lune rouge, de l’Étoile aussi – ceux qui matraquent encore les jeunesses du Hirak. Dans la Casbah, les murs s’effondrent infatigablement, figés dans leur chute. Le béton assassiné comme Melouza, comme les rêves de ceux qui pleurent encore Mostefa, Larbi et Hassiba. Quand je partirai demain, l’agent des douanes refusera la fouille manuelle de mon appareil, il le glissera dans cette machine de mort aux images, tunnel à rayon-X qui torturent les traces sur le film. À l’été 2022, un millier de scanner CT seront installés dans les aéroports états-uniens pour produire une image 3D des biens des passagers. Balayé par une lumière sans clarté, mes pellicules se voilent doublement, deviennent les reliques d’un voyage et d’une traversée, s’accordent à ce pays ligoté qui n’appartient plus ni à ses bourreaux ni à ses fils, dont l’absence d’image est au fondement d’une identité en ruine. Aujourd’hui, l’image est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. <img width="1056" height="446" width_o="1056" height_o="446" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/295ececa497939c83d38538402d16583b037b1039bbf568c81301f0ce9c60937/293863894_7690438597664601_5414757707714130396_n.jpg" data-mid="156727139" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/295ececa497939c83d38538402d16583b037b1039bbf568c81301f0ce9c60937/293863894_7690438597664601_5414757707714130396_n.jpg" /><img width="2048" height="1357" width_o="2048" height_o="1357" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4f492162de2b8d972fdf790521eb0efb10fa247ae705eb9fb6397fd96da5af2/293583529_7690435404331587_9179354325651038594_n.jpg" data-mid="156727140" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4f492162de2b8d972fdf790521eb0efb10fa247ae705eb9fb6397fd96da5af2/293583529_7690435404331587_9179354325651038594_n.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07471cbca7c460b55108aa4f288ad11ad8a0c99f2f694b7569d9763021bc274c/294444778_7690446564330471_7002651484376996771_n.jpg" data-mid="156727138" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07471cbca7c460b55108aa4f288ad11ad8a0c99f2f694b7569d9763021bc274c/294444778_7690446564330471_7002651484376996771_n.jpg" />