Benoit Martin, Hissen Albathaoui
L'Alternative / En collaboration avec Hissen Albathaoui - Film - 17min - 2023
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 25
Film
The Alternative is a documentary portrait of two young men, respectively from Chad and Sudan, Hissen Albathaoui, and Gamal Nasser aka Meno G. Now exiled in Manchester, they have survived the Holocaust of migration to Europe. Cinema and rap are for them a way of living their lives, of expressing their freedom while healing the wounds left by exile and its traumatic journey. They talk about their personal lives, while offering an unfiltered and lucid vision of the war, the conditions in which refugees are received in Europe, the indifference towards their fate, the corruption of the elites and French interference in Africa.
Benoit Martin was born in Paris in 1988. He studied cinema at Rennes 2 University and worked as an editor before enrolling at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. At the same time, he made a number of films in various genres and formats, experimenting with combinations of personal images – fictional or documentary – and found footage. As a musician, he composes with acoustic and electric instruments that he makes himself, hybridising digital and analogue recording techniques.
Production
Credits
› Image : Benoit Martin, Hissen Albathaoui, Sylvain Briend
› Montage image : Benoit Martin, Hissen Albathaoui
› Prise de son : Benoit Martin
› Musique : Hissen Albathaoui, Meno G, Prone Da Beatmurder
› Montage son : Mondine Odin, Tom Nollet
› Mixage : Tom Nollet
› Accompagnement artistique : Basma al-Sharif
