Cinematic Essay | Morocco 2024 | 71’ | French, Amazigh, English, German

An ancient ritual from the edge of the Sahara guards another non-binary [not based on the tertium non datur / bivalence principle, three- to four-dimensional] 'knowledge' of the shared, connecting, third between the polarities. This could be the key to a dialog between cultures that have become "incommensurable".
Every village here, at the foot of the southern Moroccan Atlas, has its own Ahwach ('dance of the community' in the language of those who have called themselves Imazighen, 'the free', for the last 2500 years) - and yet they all speak, sing and dance of the one and the same thing.

Direction: Michael Maurissens
Script: Norbert Dennig
Producer: CARRÉ BLANC PRODUCTIONS
Direction Of Photography: Michael Maurissens
Editing: Michael Maurissens

Featuring:
Troupe Ahwach Agdz, Troupe Ahwach Fint, Darya Myasnikova, Sergio Monferrer, Abdessamad Balahcen, Prof. Azeddine Bounit, Boubker Marrouk, Mbarek ait el kaid, Mohamed Balahcen, Prof. Anton F.H. Bierl, Prof. Dr. Vera Bühlmann, Kimerer L. LaMothe (Ph.D.), Mohamed "Hama Hasou" Ait Taleb, Thea Soti (Project ‘Atlas-Werkstätten von Agdz‘), Holger Mertin (Project ‘Atlas-Werkstätten von Agdz‘)
Translation: Mina Zouhair
Cross cultural advice: Boubker Marrouk, Mbarek ait el Kaid

Funding: Kunststiftung NRW
Coproduction:
DINDUM Kultur-Kommunikation e.V.
La Direction provinciale de la jeunesse, de la culture et de la communication Ouarzazate
La fédération Ouarzazate des arts patrimoniaux
L’Association la paix pour la culture et le développement au Maroc
Project ‘Atlas-Werkstätten von Agdz 2016 – 2019‘ – Funded by the Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD) im Rahmen des Förderprogramms Hochschuldialog mit der islamischen Welt Faculté des Sciences et Techniques Errachidia, TH Köln , Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz an der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln