Tarek Lakhrissi
2023
France
French
fiction
queer | fantastic
14 minutes
A young man, Jahid, runs away in the night from a dangerous biker and takes refuge in a strangely quiet museum. There he meets unusual characters and faces extraordinary events. Throughout this initiatory journey, Jahid confronts the improbable and goes through the exploration of beauty, political awareness as well as the surrounding danger...
Dourane Fall
Alain Garcia Vergara
Maïa Hawad
Marie-Julie Chalu
Adrien Martins
1st Assistant Director | Mona Khaouli
Script | Yuna Le Gall
Location Manager | Thomas Bouvard
Production Designer Costume | Charline Prat
Director of photography | Louise Bernard Pallas
1st Camera Assistant | Micaela Albanese
2nd Camera Assistant | Florian Rey
Gaffers | Pierre Frink & Louise Lapegue
Editor | Gabriel Gonzalez
Colorist | Ulysse Gaillot
Sound Engineer | Louise Lagabbe
Boom Operator | Renaud Perret
FX Supervisors | Hugo Hectus & Tristan Brundler
Chief Sound Editor | Fabien Beillevaire
Sound Mixing | Yannis Do Couto
Music Composor | Victor Da Silva
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Toronto Queer Film Festival
GAZE International LGBT Film Festival Dublin
St. Moritz Art Film Festival
North African Queer Film Festival
Paf Olomouc
Arica Nativa
Afrobix
Festival Echelle Humaine - Lafayettes Anticipation
Tarek Lakhrissi (lives and works in Paris) is a French artist and poet with a background in literature who explores sociopolitical narratives and speculative situations of transformation and magic through text, film, installation, and performance.
Lakhrissi has been exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions including Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Museum of Contemporary Art; 22nd Biennale of Sydney (Sydney), Wiels (Brussels), Frieze (UK), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hayward Gallery (London), La Verrière, Fondation Hermès (BE), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Auto Italia South East (London), Grand Palais, FIAC (Paris), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), Somerset House Studios (London), Fondation Lafayette Anticipations (Paris), Palazzo Re Rebaudengo/Sandretto (Guarene/Torino), Clima Gallery (Milan), Manchester International Festival (Manchester), Mostyn, (Llandudno), Tinguely Museum (Basel), HKW (Berlin), ICA (Londres), Shedhalle (Zurich); Fondation Ricard (Paris), Quadriennale di Roma; Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Roma), High Art (Paris), Kevin Space (Vienna), L’Espace Arlaud (Lausanne), Zabriskie (Geneva), Fondation Gulbenkian (Paris), Veda gallery (Firenze), CRAC Alsace (Altkirch), Kim? (Riga), Artexte (Montreal), Gaité Lyrique (Paris), SMC/CAC; (Vilnius). Lakhrissi’s artworks are part of different private and public collections like Defares, Sandretto Foundation or CNAP. He is represented by Galerie Allen (Paris) and Vitrine Gallery (London/Basel).
After the first watch, we had the feeling that Dario Argento, Bruce LaBruce & Greg Araki had a baby together and it is Tarek Lakhrissi. Close to Alice in Wonderland, Bright Heart makes us discover Jahid our Alice. In this fairytale about emancipation, a dinosaur is our lover, the good mothers the fairies are gothic and a strange biker is the Heart Queen.
