Laaroussa Quartet
A free body that invents its own movement
- Show
- Performance
- Selma & Sofiane Ouissi
La FabricA of the Festival d'Avignon
Duration : 1h
Territoires cinématographiques is a dialogue between live performance and cinema, devised in collaboration with Utopia cinemas in Avignon. It’s a daily programme of film screenings, after which the public meet and talk with theatre artists, choreographers, filmmakers, activists, critics and journalists invited to the Festival d’Avignon. This space explores the intimate relationships that these guests maintain between disciplines and with the world. It’s a place to take a broader look at the themes brought to the stage, the territories of the guest language and by the Café des idées.
Laaroussa Quartet – Immersion à Sejnane
By Selma & Sofiane Ouissi // work in progress // Tunisia // documentary // 2025 // 30min // Original version with French subtitles
Directed by Selma and Sofiane Ouissi, Laaroussa Quartet is a choreo-documentary for four performers, film, and music. It draws inspiration from ancient pottery gestures, directly passed down to the artists by the Berber women of Sejnane, Tunisia. Craftsmanship, dance, music, and cinema come together to convey a fragile and unique quality of the body. The Ouissi brothers describe it as the quality of “a free body that invents its own gesture.
Wadjan
By Selma & Sofiane Ouissi // Tunisia // documentary // 2020 // 89min // Original version with French subtitles
Selma and Sofiane Ouissi's research always revolves around the human condition and what drives everyday relationships. For Wajdan, commissioned by the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, the Tunisian duo remotely directed five female artists. Filmed at home on their mobile phones, they respond to the voice of Wajdan, a Syrian political refugee living in France, whose story was part of another artistic project by Selma and Sofiane Ouissi: Le Moindre Geste. An experimental video full of humanity, it questions social relations and the place of artists in times of crisis.
Screening followed by a discussion with Sofiane Ouissi.
Moderated by Oriane Jeancourt, editor-in-chief of Transfuge.