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Randa Maroufi

Stand-by Office

Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 13:0 | Morocco, Netherlands | 2017

The camera enters an office. The receptionist answers the telephone, her co-workers drink coffee during their break and talk about their plans. Later, there is a meeting. The stiffness of the situation reveals a hidden story. What exactly took place from June 2015 to September 2016 in the government building in Amsterdam?

Born 1987, Casablanca, works and lives in Paris. As a Fine Arts graduate from the University in Tetouan, Angers and Le Fresnoy, Randa Maroufi belongs to this generation that grew up in an era dominated by images. She collects them with as much eagerness as suspicion, and ceaselessly questions their veracity. The field of her ambiguous fiction and experimentation encompasses the occupation of public space and gender issues in a continuous search to highlight its founding mechanisms. Randa Maroufi's work has been presented at art events and film festivals such as The Marrakech Biennale, the Arab World Institute in Paris, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the MOMA, etc.