Below deep deep
Before people below shores
Old rocks sea
Deep water
Land name things they they
El Borj, Mazighen, Mazagan, Mazagão, El Mahdouma, El Jadida, Mazagan, El Jadida
New place
Old we old
Deep memories cling slow time
Curl curl
Warm rocks
Hum hum
Deep fossils
Lost glow chert
Bloom bloom
Below deep deep
They
Deep water
Memories
Great creatures
Come come go go
Warmed sea cool warm
Mansions churches empires
Fell rose fell rose fell rose
Below deep deep
People shores
Deep water
Old rocks
Hum ocean glow
Still night sea
Hum shrink shrink bloom
Below deep deep
Shore rocks
Sea memory creatures
Lost lost took took
Empires old
Long summer
Warm destroyed ocean
Below deep
Deep memory
Deep old
Deep time
Deep fossil
by Leila Gamaz
About the film
Title: From the shores of El Jadida
Artists’ names: 560Zoom (Leila Gamaz & 560Zoom)
Medium: Essay film (DV camcorder film)
Year of production: 2021
Duration: 6:07 min
The perception of Agar Agar extracted from red algae species (such as Gelidium sesquipedale) – commonly referred to as ‘Red Gold’ – is framed by its popularity in the Global North as a sustainable resource and its subsequent high market value. As humans we often think of species in terms of our relationship to them, and based on economic terms, but what would happen if the algae could tell its own story?
The centuries in El Jadida pass by. The algae witness human and natural history. The course of history, its back and forth of ruptures and repetitions, emerges in between the blurry and distorted memory fragments of the seaweed. What lies in the geography of El Jadida is explored through documentary fiction. The research on site, strolls through the endless Internet archive and in-between-conversations are enmeshed in visual and verbal storytelling from North Africa.
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Posted on November 26, 2021
Categories: Decolonising Art & Culture, Endangered & Lost Species
Tags: 2021, 560Zoom, A.Mal, Lost Species Day exhibitions, Transcripts
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