Marrakech Biennale 4th Edition Programme

Wednesday 29th February
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Offical Biennale Welcome and Press Conference 11:00 - 12:00 with Vanessa Branson, Carson Chan and Nadim Samman, Omar Berrada and Alan Yentob.
	I Am Slave 14.30-16.30 Screeing of I am Slave followed by a discussion with the Director Gabriel Range and lead actress Lubna Azabal.	Artistic identities in Africa and the Middle East Venue: Riad  Denise  Masson   14.30 -16.30  with Aziz Daki (art historian, director of the Atelier 21 in Casablanca), Khadija El Bennaoui (coordinator of Young Arab Theater Fund and Art Moves Africa and Board member of Arterial Network), Catherine David (independent curator , Director of Contemporary Arab Representations), Simon Njami (curator and art critic, co-founder of Revue Noire), Hamza Serafi (founder ofAthr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).
		A Spring of images?  Venue: Riad Denise Masson 17:00 -18:30 WJT Mitchell (theorist of art, media and literature, University of Chicago, and editor of the journal Critical Inquiry), in conversation with Rasha Salti (independent art critic, curator and film programmer) and Omar Berrada (director of the Dar al-Ma'mûn library).
Thursday 1st March
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	Nitty Gritty 10.30 What do you really need to do to survive as a great TV producer? Masterclass with Michael Souvignier, a prolific producer of TV series  in Germany, Michael gives us an insight into his extensive experience and know-how.	Art and Public Space Venue: Riad Denise Masson 10   with Negar Azimi  (editor of Bidoun magazine, member of the Arab Image Foundation), Hassan Darsi (artist, co-founder of La Source du lion), Abderrahim Kassou (architect, President of Casamémoire & General Coordinator of  Les Abattoirs de Casablanca), Katarzyna Pieprzak (Professor at Williams College, author of Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco), Driss Ksikès (director of the CESEM research center, and its magazine Economia, and co-founder of DABATEATR in Rabat).
Reading Tips 2:30pm With Latifa Baqa, Ali Benmakhlouf, Geoff Dyer, Camille de Toledo, mod. Omar Berrada Most writers are avid readers. Readers of a very particular, productive kind. Four writers will delve into their readers' memories, and share thoughts about books they hold dear, and how they read them.		Higher Atlas Exhibition Opening  Venue: Theatre Royal  17:00-20:00 Curated by Nadim Samman and Carson Chan. It showcases over 32 exciting, young artists from China to the USA and ICeland to Morocco. The artists have produced large, site-specific installations in collaboration with local artisans and local university students. The exhibition will continue until 3 June 2012, open daily 11:00 - 18:00.
Friday 2nd March
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5x15 10.30-12.30 With Touria Binebine, Rian Malan, Ben Okri, Ouidad Tebaâ, Ruby Wax, moderated by Rosie Boycott Five fantastic speakers tell us about their passion, obsession or great achievement with just two rules: no scripts and only fifteen minutes each. Touria Binebine, recounts of her efforst to get Moroccan girls to school; Ruby Wax, the great comedian and mental health campaigner; Rian Malan, reveals the story of The Lion Sleeps Tonight; Ben Okri, mesmerizes; Ouidad Tebbaa tells us about the campain to save Djemaa el Fna.	Blowing in the Wind 10.30 -12.30    New Wave from Morroco, Screening The End   Riding the counter-culture wave, rising star, director and aurthor of Morocco's first science fiction novel Stati, Hicham Lasri's first feature, The End is set in a post apacalyptic, 1999, on the eve of the deat of King Hassan II. An expose of the underbelly of Casablanca with a stylish monochrome palette and sharp camera angles, The End, was the winner of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival and special Jury prize at the 2011 Tangiers Film Festival. Followed by Q&A with Hicham Lasri, Lamia Chraibi and film critic Mohammed Bakrim.
Fathers and Sons 14:30 -16:00   Parent- chidren relations are variously staged in Driss Kiskes's play Oedipiades, Camille de Toledo's Hybrid novel Vies Potentielles, and many of Rabia Raihane's Short Stories, The Well-known Psychological dimensions of generational conflict are acquiring, in these revolutionary times, clear political overtones.    With Camille de Toledo, Driss Ksikès, Rabia Raihane,  moderated by Juan Asis Palao	Bob Marley - The Reggae Legend  14:00-16:30 Screening and Q&A Marley - Preview screening of Kevin Macdonald's epic biopic of the late Reggae star and Rasta, Bob Marley, followed by a Q&A with Kevin Macdonald and Alan Yentob. Briish Director Macdonald has made over 15 feature length documentaries adn it was whilst filming The Last King of Scotland in Uganda that he saw how iconic Bob Marley was across Afirca and decided to make this portrait of one of the world's best loved singers
Are you modern? 16:00   We have come to identify modernity with the west, and being modern, when you are from elsewhere, has come to mean catching up with the west. But this model is now showing serious signs of fatigue. What if, in art as well as in society, there were many ways to be modern?   With Khadija Carroll La, Pankaj Mishra, Zahia Rahmani, moderated by Ali Benmakhlouf		1395 Days Without Red Venue: Bank Al Magreb 17:30 -18:30 Sejla Kameric and Anri Sala in collaboration with Ari Benjamin Meyers 135 Days without Red was conceived, developed and filmed as acollaborative film project by Sejla Kameric and Anri Sala The project has given life to two separate films, which are both being presented at the Biennale.  Anri Sala's film is presented on Friday 2 March Sejla Kameric's film is presented on Sunday 4 March  Commissioned by Artangel
Saturday 3rd March
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Truthful traitors 11:00 - 12:30   Sometimes betraying your family, or your country, is the only way to be true to yourself. Two subtle writers rise above the simplifications of nation and morality, and give their nuanced, radical, and personal views of the tumultuous legacies of Apartheid in South Africa, and French colonization in Algeria.    With Rian Malan, Zahia Rahmani, moderated by Driss Ksikès	Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour 10:30 -12:00 Screening of Imagine... Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour. Followed by a discussion about this fascinating insight into the artist's life with the filmmaker Alan Yentob and the co-curator of the Higher Atlas Exhibition Carson Chan.
Writing with Images 14:30-16:00   Literature and the visual arts are not seperate worlds. Words carry images and pictures are traversed by discourse. The work of Geoff Dyer, who has written extensively on photography and film and the experience of seeing, makes this explicit. A conversation with video artist Mario Pfeifer (who strings images together into visual forms of narration) on literature, art and Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.    With Geoff Dyer, Mario Pfeifer, moderated by Omar Berrada		Wild and Wonderful Worlds  Venue: Institute Francais  14:30 -15:30 Reknowned film critic, Mohammed Bakrim presents the work two of Morroco's celebrated artists in an afternoon double bill. Lubna Azabal Lubna Azabal, actress, talks about her extensive and varied work with some of the world's most interesting directors.
Moroccan (short) stories 16:00 - 17:30 The short story is perhaps the most lively literary form in Morocco, and a genre in which women writers have been particularly brilliant and productive. A conversation with Latifa Baqa and Rabia Raihane, two of Morocco's most talented and respected short story writers and Abderrahim Elkhassar, one of the essential players and acute observers of the Moroccan literary scene With Latifa Baqa, Rabia Raihane, Abderrahim Elkhassar moderated by Ayoub El Mouzaine	Cinema Lecture: Ali Benmakhlouf Philosopher 6pm Ali Benmakhlouf present's his lecture 'Is Film the Epic poem of the day?' a lecture discussing the parallels between drama and the epic, by analysing  the three films: Casablanca, Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and Godard's Contempt	Q&A with Faouzi Bensaidi Venue: Institute Francais 16:30 -17:30 Faouzi Bensaidi writer, director discusses his work, with clips from What a Wonderful World, A Thousand Months and his latest hit, Death for Sale
Sunday 4th March
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	West Beyond the Wire 10.30-11:30 Far West, a conversation with the celebrated actor Dominic West. With writer Anthony Horowitz screening highlights of West's work - The Wire.
Partners in Crime 11.45-13:00 Husband and wife, Anthony Horowitz and producer Jill Green, chaired by Matthew Bannister. Prolific writer and author, Horowitz has written numerous successful television series including the Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War.
Worlds of Words 14:30 -16:00 Out of a deep sense of the loss inscribed in the heart of life, writers build worlds made of words, where inner drive and outer reality mat be reconciled. In Ben Okri's and Abderrahim Elkhassar's poetic worlds, man is a story-teller in close touch with the tales of the land- with his natural environment and the forgotten teachings of history.  With Abderrahim Elkhassar, Ben Okri, moderated by Pankaj Mishra	L'Amante Du Rif 14:30- 15:30 New Wave from Morroco Screening of L'Amante du Rif and Q&A with Director Narjiss Nejjar and producer Lamia Chraibi with Mohammed Bakrim Narjiss Nejjar's third feature follows Aya, daydreaming of love. Her cousin, a film student in France, shows up one day with her handheld camera and a videotape of Carmen, Bizet's famous opera. Aya instantly identifies with the free-spirited Carmen and dreams up a Prince Charming for herself. Her imaginationquicly merges with the reality of her two brothers, who work for a major drug trafficker, known as 'The Baron'. When their paths collide one morning, Aya's life gradually begins its descent into catastrophe.