Hakima EL DJOUDI

2 avenue M Experimental fiction | dv | color | 9'14'' | France | 2008 © Trough «2 avenue M», Hakima El Djoudi depicts the scene of a breakup between a man and woman from the bourgeois upper class. The breakup is both passionate and very controlled. The scene takes place inside a luxurious apartment, without artificial lighting, and the dialogue between the two characters intensifies the suffocating tension between the couple. lives and works in Paris and Corsica Other text «2 avenue M» is consisted of 6 scenes continued by long-take and the last shot like an epilogue. Each scene is developed going trough 3 spaces like an inside of a cold, high-end apartment, outside space of street implicated by car noise and natural light and the intersection of those two spaces, the hall way of intrance of the building. The floor plan where the man and woman are following can be pictured by the repetitive irrational actions with purposeless and no intention in contrast of the sound of closing door, squeaking noise of floor and the street noise trough an open window. The man and woman sitting face with smoking are talking in a silence but the popular song surrounds them in a low volume is telling us the parting away is coming closer. The climax of this short film is the stop motion, almost frozen screen for about 10 seconds without music or even noise; it turns out that the inside space is not the appropriate place for their souls to breathe and dwell in any more. Manu Park List of exhibition, filmography... Filmography+ diffusion 2008 2 avenue M, vidéo projection 9 mn (4:3), sound, color -grau Gallery, Séoul, 2008 2007 mesure vague, vidéo projection 6mn (4:3),sound, color -cinematheque de corse,2008 -rencontre internationale paris berlin madrid,2007/08 -France 3 canal 214, sequence court,2008 2006 sans titre (MC), vidéo projection 5mn (4:3),sound, color -cinematheque de corse,2008 -france 3 canal 214, sequence court,2008 2005 de front, vidéo projection 14mn (4:3), sound, color -frac corse, espace St Jacques huis clos 3/3, vidéo projection 14mn (4:3), sound, color terre battue, vidéo projection 6mn (4:3), sound, black and white à faire, vidéo projection 7mn (4:3), sound, color huis clos 2/3, vidéo projection 7mn (4:3), sound, color huis clos 1/3, vidéo projection 5mn (4:3), sound, color Exhibition 2008 -Mondo e terra Museum of Contemporary Art of Nuoro, FRAC Corse, Italy - A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Graugallery Séoul, South Korea -first Bienal international of Téhéran, Istanbul, Turki - land over, espace Contemporain Orenga de Gaffory, Patrimonio, France - Pavillon 7, Palais de Tokyo, Paris -les retours, SMP, Marseille -diffusion: Cinèmathèque de Corse, Porto-Vecchio