Tariq Teguia
Directing
Biography
Tariq Teguia (Arabic: تقية طارق) is an Algerian director and screenwriter born in Algiers on December 12, 1966. After studying philosophy and visual arts, Tariq Teguia was a freelance photographer for an Algerian daily newspaper, assistant to a photographer and professor of contemporary art history at the Algiers School of Fine Arts. In 2001, he defended his doctoral thesis at Paris VIII University entitled Robert Frank, cartographic fictions. He began directing with four short films: "Kech'mouvement" (1996), Le Chien (1996), Ferrailles d'attendance (1998) and La Clôture (2002). “Rome Rather Que Vous”, distributed in France in 2008, is his first feature film. The film recounts a few hours of Zina (Samira Kaddour) and Kamel (Rachid Amrani) leaving in a suburb of Algiers, La Madrague, in search of an improbable way to leave Algeria. The film was presented at the Venice Film Festival in 2007, at the Belfort Festival 2007 (Grand Jury Prize and Best Actor Prize for Samira Kaddour) and at the Friborg Festival 2007 (Special Jury Prize). His film "Inland" (Gabbla) (2008) was presented in competition at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. In 2007 and then in 2013, the Entrevues International Film Festival in Belfort awarded him two grand prizes for, respectively, his feature film " Rome Rather Than You", and his feature film Revolution "Zendj".
Known For
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Malek is a surveyor who is semi-retired, but at the urging of a friend he takes an assignment in western Algeria. The region in question was the site of frequent battles during the civil war, and an earlier survey that would make it possible to bring electrical utilities to the area was cut short by the fighting. While the zone is still unstable, Malek sets out to complete charting the area, and finds the locals regard him with suspicion and hostility.
Inland
"For more than ten years, Algeria has been living a slow war, a war without a front line but having caused more than 100,000 deaths. It is this desert that Zina and Kamel – two young Algerians sometimes hallucinated and joyful, sometimes dejected and serene – will want to travel one last time before leaving it for elsewhere. Road Movie on the territories of a city, Algiers whose construction sites are in decline. Roma wa la n'touma will show that fleeing abroad is not is not a refusal of combat, but an obscure struggle against assignment. Tariq Teguia
Rome Rather Than You
The Fence is a cry! In the aftermath of the civil war which bloodied Algeria, Tariq Teguia interviews the young people of Bab El Oued who express their anger. In the fixed shots in which they testify, Tariq Teguia alternates wanderings in a car which extend those of Ferrailles d’anticipations. And it is the violence of confinement that dominates, coupled with the desire for something impossible elsewhere.
The Fence
Ibn Battuta works as a journalist for an Algerian daily newspaper. While covering community clashes in Southern Algeria, he finds himself incidentally picking up the trail of long forgotten uprisings against the Abbasid Caliphate, back in 8th-9th century Iraq. For the purpose of his investigation he goes to Beirut, a city that used to embody the hopes and struggles of the Arab World...
Zanj Revolution
Where are you, Tariq Teguia? is part of the series of short films commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, which asks invited filmmakers to create a free-form film to answer this question about the future, its desires, its projects! Where are you now, Tariq Teguia? is less a self-portrait - from Thessaloniki to Algiers, Lisbon or Beirut - than an attempt to escape it.
Where are you, Tariq Teguia?
Algeria seen as a constant construction site. The eye moves through the chaos of the Algerian architecture, where most of the buildings are left incomplete. This is an essay on photography and video, but also on graphics and music.