The rug (2018)

"The Rug" is an experimental film, an art-film, writing in pictures, screen-played by ink of music. The poetic means that are privileged there range from the expression of the unreal, from the immaterial to the material. It is an anthropology of Algerian art and its heritage. In this work in three acts, "Rikham" the heroine represents the anima of the great Algerian Sahara, a body projection marked out and moving between the realities of the conscious and the unconscious. The characters appearing next to it are meant to represent the four natural elements in essence: water, air, earth and fire. The magical Algerian landscapes, however, filmed with sobriety, show beyond, a majestic decoration, a decorum, which integrates into the composition of the plans to make and generate meaning; preeminence of nature accentuated by the movement of the characters. "The rug" is a visual narrative curling the dream like a succession of paintings where the spectator wanders in an art gallery, here cinematographic. The magic of this film remains above all that of an exquisite cinematic language.