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"Malek Salah; majnun layla" by Amine Kouider from Amine Kouider on Vimeo .
Winner of the Iowa Motion Picture Association Award of Excellence for best student film.
Winner at the 2008 Landlocked Film Festival in the student film category.
A short film about the Algerian Contemporary artist Malek Salah as he prepares for the first exhibition titled 'Majnun layla' for the Algiers Modern Art Museum – the first of its kind in the Arabic speaking countries. The film brings deep insight into his process of creation and his relationship with his art and consciousness.
"Amine is content to let his video portrait of Malek speak its own truth. His film is beautiful, not just because it showcases Salah’s amazing talent, expressed in his oversized sculptures and colossal canvases, which Amine describes as “overpowering,” but also because of the visual landscape Amine created with his footage and work in the editing studio.
He floods the film with footage and stills of Malek’s work, creating a rhythm that mirrors the intensity of the artist who created them. Kouider captures the artist as he carves into his work, and then overlays the enigmatic soundtrack with the soft or scratchy sounds of the artist’s brush and graphite on canvas, speeding up the frames at times to punctuate the working style of the artist and producing a mash-up of documentary meets music video meets fine art."
– Mo Elis, The Iowa Source, July 2008.
Caution: Very crazy Algerian - from Algeria. I breathe fire like a dragon. And i fart like a hipo. Don't touch me, my skin is like broken glass. And my fingers are like "Salad Fingers..." very nice. Some say I am Borat's cousin; because of my crazy hair and my funny moustache. I drive a ferrari to work. But I drive a camel home at night. I almost made it to the moon, but that's another story...
I'm also a musician and a documentary filmmaker. You can watch my documentary 'Malek Salah; Majnun Layla" right above. My music is in the music section. I made the promotional video for the David Lynch weekend that you'll find just under this section. I also filmed Master Ben Aissa playing his gumbri in the music section.Enjoy the profile and drop a message or a comment if you like my stuff. Ciao Amigos!