VIZOR20254K, 73 min, color and black and white, sound
Vizor is an experimental feature film that opens like a classic fiction: a couple with a child discovers they are brother and sister. But within the first few minutes, the suspense fades and the narrative illusion unravels. Colors shift, the camera reveals itself, and the director appears on screen, breaking every convention. What unfolds is no longer a story in the traditional sense, but an exploration of “the impossibility of narration.” Each scene becomes an autonomous entity, a negotiation with the image, alternating between rough shots and clandestine archives, and landscapes of great beauty.
Filmed without authorization in Tangier, Hamza Halloubi works on the outskirts, in the fringes between urban and rural spaces, exploring locations that are both untouched and transgressive. The landscape emerges as a space besieged by authority.
Rejecting the colonized conception of cinema as the art of storytelling, Halloubi asserts an abstract film in which the camera constantly negotiates its place with bodies and spaces.