Soufou mad yiwi yiwi (2024)

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
05:07 min.

An Amazigh bride finds herself in an alternative techno universe. As a cyborg, she inhabits a space void of the white gaze. Gradually, she returns to practices and objects that have a specific meaning in the artist’s family background. Traditional practices that have been slowly disappearing during her lifetime.

Soufou mad yiwi yiwi is an exploration and fantasy of Amazigh traditions in relation to a hyper-technical world. The imaginary visual language of these technologies is not neutral, but strongly determined within a Western framework. Amazigh politics are too often erased or misrecognized in the European imagination. This video work is a form of reclamation.

Written and directed by Fatima Agoula
Starring Karima el Fillali
DOP Mikela Koressi

Light by Tuyl van Grieken
SFX by Yael Schuster
Make up by Vasilisa Ikryannikova
Edit by Katarina Holzmann Ekholm
Colour grading by Izzy Lee
Sound by Miray van der Bend

Special thanks to

Xiomara van Eendenburg,
Christopher Tym,
Anja Masling,
Karolina Wilting,
Tomas Adolfs,
Tarja Szaraniec,
Martin Grootenboer
and Tungsten studio.