Sisyphus
In the desert, a man extracts stones from a mountain and breaks them. In his perpetual labour, he meditates upon life and death…
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Aroussi DrissDirector
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Aroussi DrissWriter
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Short
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Runtime:12 minutes 48 seconds
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Completion Date:November 15, 2017
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Country of Origin:France
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Country of Filming:Morocco
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Language:Arabic
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Beirut Art CenterBeirut
Lebanon -
Corsica DocAjaccio
France -
SupervuesVaison la Romaine
France -
IFFRotterdamRotterdam
Netherlands -
Filmer le TravailPoitier
France -
Film la premier foisMarseille
France -
Trento Trento Film FestivalTrento
Italy
April 27, 2019 -
Numéro Zéro film festivalForcalquier
France -
Black Star Film FestivalPhiladelphia
United States
August 4, 2019
North american premiere
Official competition
Born in 1979, he lives and works in Marseille, France. The artistic work of Driss Aroussi is polysemic, borrowing several lines of research, navigating between experimentation and documentary form. Driss Aroussi in his practice uses what allows to reproduce reality as photography, to grasp it as video. In recent years he has photographed construction sites, spending time with workers, sharing their daily lives, considering men, tools, objects and places. The real for him also bears the mark of work, the stigmata of its contradictions, the signs of the transformation that it operates on our reality.
With the film "Sisyphus" a new narrative dimension brings a poetic and complementary look at the body at work, humanity and the spaces of the daily work: the perpetual cycle of life.