The films in this segment are come to us from filmmakers working or living in the United States and Canada. Spanning numerous genres, reflecting on diaspora, and thinking critically about what constitutes identities that are rooted in place, history, family, and practice, these local-ish shorts tackle intersectionality and depict various ideas about what it means embody tradition and home.
Bare Bones is a story of interpreting, extending, and questioning what makes us human and what makes our environment. It is not a hazard of life, nor an accident, nor a product of the imagination, but a strange in-between. An experience of ending; an experience that cannot be attributed to anyone, because it belongs to no one person.
To see your world suddenly collapse is to have to reinvent everything or surrender, to reclaim your life or end it, to reevaluate your beliefs or deny them.
About the filmmaker
Meryem Lahlou is a 25-year-old Moroccan artist who studied architecture in Paris and fiction and entertainment in Los Angeles. Her works translate the use of spatial design as a medium of storytelling to explore human anxieties. She narrates a constellation of frailties in diverse and undulating humanities.
- Year2020
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States, Morocco
- DirectorMeryem Lahlou
- ScreenwriterMeryem Lahlou
- ProducerLiam Young
- MusicPablo Arellano
The films in this segment are come to us from filmmakers working or living in the United States and Canada. Spanning numerous genres, reflecting on diaspora, and thinking critically about what constitutes identities that are rooted in place, history, family, and practice, these local-ish shorts tackle intersectionality and depict various ideas about what it means embody tradition and home.
Bare Bones is a story of interpreting, extending, and questioning what makes us human and what makes our environment. It is not a hazard of life, nor an accident, nor a product of the imagination, but a strange in-between. An experience of ending; an experience that cannot be attributed to anyone, because it belongs to no one person.
To see your world suddenly collapse is to have to reinvent everything or surrender, to reclaim your life or end it, to reevaluate your beliefs or deny them.
About the filmmaker
Meryem Lahlou is a 25-year-old Moroccan artist who studied architecture in Paris and fiction and entertainment in Los Angeles. Her works translate the use of spatial design as a medium of storytelling to explore human anxieties. She narrates a constellation of frailties in diverse and undulating humanities.
- Year2020
- Runtime9 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States, Morocco
- DirectorMeryem Lahlou
- ScreenwriterMeryem Lahlou
- ProducerLiam Young
- MusicPablo Arellano