K OFF Gabes Cinema Fen x Dream City
30 Sept. from 2pm to 6pm
1st oct. from 10am to 6pm
2 oct. from 10am to 6pm
3 oct. from 10am to 6pm
4 oct. from 10am to 6pm
5 oct. from 10am to 6pm
6 oct. from 10am to 6pm
7 oct. from 10am to 6pm
8 oct. from 10am to 6pm
9 oct. from 10am to 6pm
Auberge Zitouna
In 2021 and 2022 the carte blanche of the K-OFF of Gabès Cinema Fen was given to Kenza Jemmali and Salma Kossemtini.
Gabès Cinéma Fen in collaboration with L'Art Rue/Dream City
Gabes Cinema Fen is an annual festival dedicated to the moving image that takes place in Gabes, a maritime oasis in the south-east of Tunisia.
The festival, whose programming integrates Cinema, Video Art and Virtual Reality, wants to offer a place of choice to the young Tunisian artistic creation.
K Off, born in 2021, is the Video Art section of the Gabes Cinema Fen Festival dedicated to early-career Tunisian artists. Each year an early stage curator is given carte blanche to feature artists using the moving image as their medium. In 2021 and 2022 the carte blanche was given to Kenza Jemmali and Salma Kossemtini.
This year, K OFF is exported to Dream City, in the medina of Tunis.
Merging the first and second editions, presented in 2021 and 2022 , K OFF x Dream City presents the work of eight young Tunisian artists and represents a fostering of a true plurality of perspectives and approaches. It takes as its anchor these artists, their individual practices and enhances the emergence of an art scene where the reality, and experience of each artist is the inspiration.
Video programming of K OFF x Dream City
at Auberge Zitouna - Sept. 30 from 2 pm to 6 pm and from Oct. the 1st to Oct. 9 2022 from 10am to 6pm
>> Ahmed Ben Nessib, Ekart, 9 min., 2018
A woman tries to see herself as she is.
>> Achref Bettaieb, Phonetic, 2 min.50, 2022
The caterpillar said to the bird:
“Those who stick around to witness my transformation ,
could do it at any time and in countless ways.
I can’t tell them how to cope with it,
but let me remind you that it takes healing,
emerging from the cocoon and taking to the sky.
If only they knew, I can only do it once in my lifetime.”
>> Nada Chamli, Heirloom, 12 min. 42, 2022
Once burned in public squares, women who did not obey any kind of standard were accused of practicing witchcraft. “Heirloom –سَعِيرْ” is an audiovisual essay that treats the figure of the witch as a social identity and mystical and spiritual vision.
>> Ghassen Chraifa, Everything that will remain, 6 min.10, 2022
When death gallops, infiltrates the corners of the city and binds any articulation of life... Devastation settles.. And Agony invites itself... Everything that will remain is an archiving of the future of a city resigned to disappearance even before the beginning...
>> Syrine Eloued, MOON, 8 min. 32, 2021
For a research and creation residency, Syrine takes with her the diaries she has been writing for 12 years with the intention of burning them. But she takes the time to reopen them, to visit the past... Filming this gesture then becomes another diary in which she questions images, words and the passing of time.
>> Rim Harrabi, Y.Y.Y, 4 min.20, 2022
Time dilates, gestures fade into space, everything is in constant metamorphosis, as in a distant memory that seeks to reconstitute itself.
>> Wafa Lazhari, Under the dust, 6 min. 2022, video installation
A woman returns to the land where her husband was born and buried.
>> Toxic Club, To reassured planet, multi-screen video series, 2022
Toxic club is an account of a generation finding refuge in radical universes of extreme sound and image. Their universe emerges from sporadic spaces, they film, simply with a phone, an image free of form and taboo and represent the extreme violence of the frustration of the new Tunisian generation.