On Friday, February 27, TILT-SHIFT welcomes Yasmine Benabdallah for a screening and discussion of four of her films. These will be accompanied by a screening of Nour Ouyada's VERS LE SOLEIL, followed by a discussion of Benabdallah's political work and creative practice.

Born and raised in Morocco, Yasmine Benabdallah is a filmmaker, mixed-media artist, and researcher, whose work explores memory, performance, diaspora, archives, rituals, and time travel. Her work is experiential and grows through wandering and listening to bodies and spaces. Her films and installations have been shown in Morocco, France, Egypt, Canada, Palestine, Tunisia, Brazil, Germany, Lebanon, Portugal, the US, Scotland, England, and the UAE, where “How to reverse a spell: the promise of an archive” won the Sharjah Art Foundation Best Experimental Short Award. Yasmine has done residencies in Palestine, Morocco, France, Portugal, and Tunisia, where “Chebba” received the Cinephilia Best Screenplay Award at the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage (JCC).

TILT-SHIFT, referring to a pair of interactions between a camera lens and the image plane, is a film series about moving images and politics. TILT-SHIFT invites guest filmmakers to screen their work alongside a film that helped inspire it, and discuss with audiences how their work engages lineages of radical cinema and anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist struggle. Curated by UCSC Film and Digital Media PhD. student alex cruse, this series connects conversations about aesthetics and form to work being done on the ground.