Âabide l’kadia
Abdessamad El Montassir
This film is part of Fatima Zahra-Lakrissa’s Carte Blanche
Enter the world of Abide l’kadia, a film that explores the history of Harratines in Mauritania through a moving multi-temporal narrative. With poignant testimonials, meddeha songs, and contemplative images, the film takes you to a deep reflection on situations of domination and the new models of society that are being created to allow for emancipation and transformation.
Enter the world of Abide l’kadia, a film that explores the history of Harratines in Mauritania through a moving multi-temporal narrative. With poignant testimonials, meddeha songs, and contemplative images, the film takes you to a deep reflection on situations of domination and the new models of society that are being created to allow for emancipation and transformation.
| Director | Abdessamad El Montassir |
| Director of Photography | Laura Delle Piane |
| Editing | Abdessamad El Montassir |
| Sound | Alexandre Frigoult |
| Sound mixing | Marin Bonazzi |
In Partnership with
Session
• Université Concordia - J.A. de Sève, LB-125, Pavillon J. W. McConnell
Saturday, march 18, 2023, 02:00 p.m. — 04:00 p.m.
Image tirée du film Âabide l’kadia // Image from the film Âabide l’kadia
Image tirée du film Âabide l’kadia // Image from the film Âabide l’kadia
© ADAGP / Abdessamad El Montassir
Production
Abdessamad El Montassir
Abdessamad El Montassir is a bearer of stories and his backdrop is the Sahara: he tells the desert, with the freedom of hypothesis. His work is a research, an investigation into something that escapes us. He gives forms to silences and a texture to mutism. Because El Montassir is a historian without archives and a track hound of the territories. His work resembles an anthology of poems, is like a scientific novel and exists as a song of transmission. At the same time, he highlights the capacity of plants and non-human elements to act on the world, even transforming or influencing it.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Galb’Echaouf (2021)
