Bouchra Khalili

Cinetracts '20

Želimir Žilnik, Sheilah ReStack

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project.

Straight Stories, Part 1

Bouchra Khalili

Alexandre Kauffmann

Somewhere between documentary and fiction, this is an essay on questions of territory and human displacements made during an excursion from southern Spain to northern Morocco. Travelling on the Mediterranean rim, we hear immigrants tell their stories.

Twenty-Two Hours

Bouchra Khalili

Quiana Pontes, Vanessa Silva

Bouchra Khalili’s meditation on revolutionary histories considers the poet Jean Genet’s secret 1970 visit to the United States at the invitation of the Black Panther Party.

Mapping journey n°4

Bouchra Khalili

Bouchra Khalili is interested in the Mediterranean as a space of nomadism and itinerancy. Her work renders it in its subjective aspect by documenting the realities and narratives of migration, offering an alternative mapping based on the personal testimony of clandestine migrations. Mapping Journeys is a series of documentary works telling eight stories. Each presents a static shot of a map of the territory concerned, on which the traveller's hand sketches his or her journey. The accompanying voice has no face, as clandestinity requires: testimony to the invisibility of those at home nowhere and to the loss of identity this brings.

Anya: Straight Stories, Part 2

Bouchra Khalili

On one hand an exploration of the Bosphorus as a “continuous drift” between Europe and Asia; on the other, the tale (recounted via voiceover) of Anya, an undocumented Iraqi who has lived in the region for 12 years awaiting a visa to Australia.

The Tempest Society

Bouchra Khalili

Three Athenians from different backgrounds form a group in Athens to examine the current state of Greece, Europe, and the Mediterranean.