Film f L3rayesh
Carte blanche by Phœnix Atala and Nicolas Feodoroff
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 7pm
Atelier-Assemblée at Triangle-Astérides, 2nd floor, Manufacture 2, Friche la Belle de Mai
Free admission upon prior registration
The format of Triangle-Astérides’ cartes blanches indicates that the events are programmed and produced independently of the art center that hosts them.
A meeting-discussion with Phœnix Atala and Nicolas Feodoroff about his latest film Défaillance Critique (2024), a meta SF screening-conversation where a queer racialized community composed of resistant android artists, uses voguing as a weapon for self-piracy, and a his new project Film à Larrache : a speculative journey through North African temporality.
He brings together the experiences of three generations of artists from the same family in the imaginary world of a utopian café, where exchanging books meets listening to music and sipping mint tea. An evening where the screening of an extract from Défaillance Critique meets the live track گا ي ب نعناع (gay bi na3na3 - gay à la menthe).
Phœnix Atala is a Franco-Moroccan trans, transversal and transdisciplinary artist, involved in decolonial and queer practices, speculative and transformative futures. His work explores, deconstructs and manipulates the techniques of cinema, performance, stand-up, hip-hop, speech and web series. Most often, and increasingly, Atala works collectively and collaboratively.
Following a residency at the art and research center Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and the Palais de Tokyo, Phœnix Atala orchestrated Défaillance Critique (premiered at FIDMarseille), a meta-oriented SF film-conversation in which a queer, racialized community of resistantx android artists uses voguing as a weapon to self-piracy. Likewise Queer Time, a spiral-shaped self-tuned vocal performance, explores non-linear time in quantum leaps and bounds. And فيلم ف العرايش (Film f L3rayesh) a speculative scenario through North African temporality, brings together the experiences of three generations of artists from the same family in the fantasy of a utopian café, where exchanging books meets listening to music, cruising and sipping mint tea in the haze of chicha.
He is currently a visiting professor at the Institut Kunst Gender & Natur in Basel, where he conducts pedagogical experiments on queer temporality, collaborative work and decentralized production/dissemination spaces.
Nicolas Feodoroff is an art and film critic, independent programmer and at FIDMarseille. He teaches image theory and practice at the Marseille School of Fine Arts.
This carte blanche by Phœnix Atala and Nicolas Feodoroff is the second evening in a programming cycle initiated by Beaux-Arts de Marseille: Les clochers de tourmente, featuring Gabriel Gauthier, Phœnix Atala, Hélène Giannecchini, Radio Hito, Zoe Heselton & Inès R. from February to May 2025.