IMAGES DE TUNISIE

INFO

Director

Younes Ben Slimane

Genre

Documentary, Experimental

Duration

14’

Year

2025

Nationality

United Kingdom, France, Tunisia

SYNOPSYS

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.

STILLS

CREDITS

Director

Younès Ben Slimane

Genre

Documentary, Experimental

Duration

14′

Nationality

United Kingdom, France, Tunisia

Production

Zaha Hadid Foundation

Cinematography

Younès Ben Slimane

Editing

Ana Elena Tejera

Younès Ben Slimane

Sound

Mederic Corroyer

Color Grading

Clovis Stocchetti

Head of Research and Learning

Jane Pavitt

Project Team

Serena Lawrance, Rosie Martyr

Phil Sofer, Wilson Yau

Curator

Johan Deurell

Graphic Design

Offshore

Executive producer

Kouraych Heraghi

with the support of

Drac Hauts-de-France, Atelier 105 Residency – Light Cone

AWARDS AND SELECTIONS

2025
World Premiere
22. CPH:DOX

YOUNES BEN SLIMANE

younesbenslimanne_portrait

BIOGRAPHY

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.

FILMOGRAPHY

IMAGES DE TUNISIE

2025

 

WE KNEW HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY WERE, THESE ISLANDS

2022

 

ALL COME FROM DUST

2019