Le Daftar

Shot in various formats (16mm, DV, digital, 35mm), Le Daftar captures performers as they reappropriate architectures and places through spontaneous rituals, words of uprising, and meditative communion. Filmed along the shores of the Atlantic and featuring artists such as Fabienne Guilbert, Léonce Konan Noah, Ife Day and Daniel Galicia, the work inhabits ruins as living archives where non‑Western deities return via gesture, voice, and the persistence of desire. The film emerges from shared experiences of immigration, exile, gender identity, and cultural multiplicity. It unfolds through an open, unscripted creative process that welcomes and integrates the practices of its participants, thereby redefining the very notion of authorship. The voice of poet Belinda Zhawi narrates like a pythia, offering a performative experience that echoes ancestral oral traditions, transforming listening itself into a cinematographic grammar. This version of Le Daftar has been specially edited for the MYMovies platform.