Open City Documentary Festival Workshop: Dancing with Images and Film: Reassembling Al Alma’ by Jocelyne Saab.

In collaboration with Braquage, an initiative aimed at celebrating film-based practices, the Jocelyne Saab Association offers workshops on these discarded images. The goal is to explore the creative process of Jocelyne Saab in a new light. By working with the physicality of the film stock using dedicated equipment, these workshops aim to rediscover the cinematic gestures of filmmakers who worked with celluloid. They encourage the practice of repurposing techniques, allowing for fresh perspectives on the artist’s work – such as scratching or painting on film, peeling and reassembling the photo-chemical emulsion – following the tradition of experimental cinema. This offers a new way to engage with the outtakes that were set aside by the filmmaker.