Stills
Selected for the IDFA Luminous Competition 2025. Nordin Lasfar's documentary about Mohammed Mrabet, the illiterate fisherman's son whose oral stories Paul Bowles transcribed and published, a friendship marked by colonial inequality. Mrabet, now in his late eighties, looks back; his cassette-tape story fragments are complemented by magical-realist AI imagery. Who owns the stories?
Written & directed by Nordin Lasfar · Cinematography: Jacko van 'tHof, Aziz Al-Dilaimi NSC, Jean Charles Counet NSC · AI artists: Jean Charles Counet NSC, Alex Glocknitzer · Editing: Thomas Vroege · Sound: Benny Jansen · Composer: Vincent van Warmerdam · Creative producer: Jos de Putter · VPRO
My role: cinematography and the AI-constructed hybrid scenes, see Caught My AI.