DocumentaMadrid
XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
Personal history of her relationship with Michel Hass (1934-2019), her late partner. Sentimental portrait made using images of their sheltered life together among the work of the poet, performer, and abstract painter Michel Hass. Narimane Mari's film-as-experience gets put at the service of intimate life, here getting a poetic treatment where disease, instead of overshadowing the person, also helps us understand the experience of life, and death, in all its fullness. In the meanwhile, fragments of Michel Haas' own work, which act as brief statements in this beautiful and moving memoir of love.
Featuring a presentation and discussion with Narimane Mari at the screening on Friday, May 5.
Director biography
Narimane Mari
Narimane Mari (Algeria, 1969) is a filmmaker and artist. She thinks of cinema as a form of experience and her films develop alternative states of perception. Winner of the Jury Prize at FID Marseille, CPH:DOX and a regular presence at the most prestigious international art film festivals, her work crosses the boundaries between documentary, experimental and fiction filmmaking. Her work has also been exhibited at the Georges Pompidou Center, MoMA, Reina Sofia Museum and documenta 14 (Kassel). She has made the feature films Bloody Beans (2013), Le fort des fous (2017) and On a eu la journée bonsoir (2022) and the medium-length film Holy Days (2019). She works closely with the musicians Cosmic Neman, Lori Schonberg and Quentin Rollet to create the soundscapes in her films. From her production company, Central Electrique, she has produced films for Hassen Ferhani, Djamel Kerkar, Nicolas Klotz and Elizabeth Perceval and Pawel Wojtasik, among others.
Finished
Sessions
May
Friday 05
19:00 h
Museo Reina Sofia. Edificio Sabatini, Auditorio
Thursday 11
19:00 h
Museo Reina Sofia. Edificio Sabatini, Auditorio
Credits
Language
French - Subtitles in spanish and english
Director
Narimane Mari