Director |
Younes Ben Slimane |
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Genre |
Documentary, Experimental |
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Duration |
14’ |
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Year |
2025 |
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Nationality |
United Kingdom, France, Tunisia |
Images de Tunisie reclaims and recontextualizes archival footage from 1940s newsreels produced by Les Actualités Françaises, and combines it with new footage filmed at the same vernacular architecture sites in the Berber villages of southern Tunisia.
Director |
Younès Ben Slimane |
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Genre |
Documentary, Experimental |
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Duration |
14′ |
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Nationality |
United Kingdom, France, Tunisia |
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Production |
Zaha Hadid Foundation |
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Cinematography |
Younès Ben Slimane |
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Editing |
Ana Elena Tejera Younès Ben Slimane |
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Sound |
Mederic Corroyer |
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Color Grading |
Clovis Stocchetti |
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Head of Research and Learning |
Jane Pavitt |
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Project Team |
Serena Lawrance, Rosie Martyr Phil Sofer, Wilson Yau |
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Curator |
Johan Deurell |
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Graphic Design |
Offshore |
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Executive producer |
Kouraych Heraghi |
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with the support of |
Drac Hauts-de-France, Atelier 105 Residency – Light Cone |
Younes Ben Slimane is a tunisian filmmaker and architect .
He has completed post-graduates studies at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (FR), where he studied in the classes of Ben Russell.
His work has been showcased at the Documenta fifteen Mobile Lab in Kassel (DE), the Mucem in Marseille (FR), the Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain in Dakar (SN), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (MK), the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (FR), the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio (US), the Zaha Hadid Foundation in London (UK) and the Galeria de Arte Cinemática in Vila do Conde (PT) among others.
His films have been selected for international festivals, including the Locarno Film Festival (CH), CPH:DOX (DK)and DokuFest (XK) among others.
He received the Loop Barcelona Award 2022 (ES), the Studio Collector Prize 2021 (FR), and the Golden Tanit at the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage (TN) in 2019.
He has participated in several residencies, notably at the Villa Medici in Rome (IT). His work is part of art collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, MACBA and Kadist Paris-San Francisco.
2025
2022
2019