Yasmine Benabdallah
Yasmine Benabdallah is a Moroccan filmmaker, visual artist, and researcher, whose work explores memory, performance, diaspora, archives, rituals, and time travel. Her films and installations have been shown in Morocco, France, Egypt, Canada, Palestine, Tunisia, Germany, Lebanon, Portugal, the US, Scotland, England, and the UAE, where her film “How to reverse a spell: the promise of an archive” won the Sharjah Art Foundation Best Experimental Short award. Yasmine has taken part in residencies in Palestine, Morocco, France, Portugal, and Tunisia, where her project “Chebba” received the Cinephilia Best Screenplay Award at the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage (JCC). Her writing has been published in MAI: peer-reviewed journal on Feminism & Visual Culture, African Studies Review, Klima Magazine, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2020 Catalogue, Middle East Eye, divine zine, and HuffPost Maghreb. Yasmine has a BA in Film and Mathematics from Columbia University and an MA from the Experimental Programme in Political Arts at Sciences Po Paris (SPEAP). She is pursuing a critical praxis PhD in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz researching the intersections of decolonial moving-image making, rituals, and archives.