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Nature Morte is a film about the Italian painter Georgio Morandi (1890-1964). It shows his images, paintings and photographs in a book. The film juxtaposes the still life paintings made by the artist with striking images drawn from art history and events of the 20th century. It is a reading of Morandi?s work in relation to the unstable history of the last century, termed by the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm ?the age of extremes?. The film questions the relationship between the artist and the political and artistic news of the time.

Born in 1982 in Tangier, Morocco, Hamza Halloubi Across a wide range of media, including video, photography, sculpture, and installation. Hamza Halloubi?s work shows an interest both in the grammar and semiotics of film and language. These rather theoretical fields are then linked to more subjective issues such as memory and translation. Taking personal experience as a point of departure and filtering it through more abstract concepts, Hamza Halloubi creates inviting visual metaphors. His films develop an aesthetic that tries to merge the internal poetics of human encounters with a rather conceptual approach. His light boxes and installations investigate language?s ability to evoke narratives from fragmented writings. The artist lives and works in Brussels and Tangier.